Has CLP leader and senior Congressman Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka scored a self-goal? It appears so. Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka, who is currently on a padayatra to highlight the failures of the TRS government wore the yellow scarf of the Telugu Desam during his yatra. Not only did he continue wearing the TDP scarf, but even the TDP cadres were present in large numbers.
The presence of the TDP cadres and Mallu wearing TDP scarf have left the Congress cadre in Madhira constituency both confused and confounded. What’s more? There were CPM flags welcoming him along the route. The question that is uppermost in the minds of the Congress cadre is if Mallu is indicating that there would be a pact with the TDP and the Left parties in the 2023 elections too?
It may be recalled that an alliance with the TDP has completely sunk the Congress Party in the 2018 elections. KCR capitalized on this alliance and portrayed the Congress as prostrating before the Andhra-based TDP. The result was that the Congress was badly routed and decimated in Telangana.
Meanwhile, anti Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka groups in the Congress are fully using the images of Mallu with the TDP scarf and are planning to lodge a complaint against him. They are said to be taking the issue to the notice of Rahul Gandhi. Meanwhile, Mallu’s supporters are claiming that the TDP and the Left have only expressed their solidarity with the padayatra and that nothing more should be read into the incident.
