nternal rifts within the ruling Telangana Congress surfaced following a series of confidential, closed-door meetings held by Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy with select MLAs from districts like Mahabubnagar and Nagarkurnool. The highly secretive nature of these interactions, which bypassed established party channels, sparked severe discontent among senior cabinet ministers and veterans within the Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC).
The friction stems primarily from the complete exclusion of district-in-charge ministers and senior leaders from these discussions. Under the state’s Praja Palana governance framework, district-in-charge ministers are explicitly tasked with overseeing regional development, welfare implementation, and local political coordination. By issuing immediate, short-notice invitations directly to individual MLAs and keeping party veterans entirely in the dark, the Chief Minister’s approach has been criticized as a parallel mechanism that undermines the authority of his own cabinet colleagues and threatens the organizational hierarchy at Gandhi Bhavan.
Compounding this internal discomfort is the timing of these meetings, which coincided with separate, official constituency-wise reviews conducted by AICC Telangana in-charge Meenakshi Natarajan. Senior Congress leaders raised concerns over the conflicting signals being sent to the party high command, arguing that the lack of transparency breeds unnecessary suspicion and groupism within the party cadre. Critics from within the ruling party have voiced worries that sidelining senior figures and creating exclusive access channels could severely disrupt party unity ahead of key local body elections.