Former union minister Daggubati Purandeswari seems to be impatient to remain without any position of power for about three years, after resigning from the union cabinet and joining BJP. After waiting patiently by cultivating good rapport with RSS and BJP leaders at national level, she is said to be now making hectic moves to join union cabinet.
After realising that his brother-in-law Chandrababu Naidu will not allow her to become MP from the state, as long as BJP-TDP alliance continues, she has reportedly decided to make strategic moves to join Narendra Modi’s cabinet, which would automatically give her chance to get Rajya Sabha seat.
However RSS leadership, who are bringing pressure on BJP high-command to serve ties with TDP and strengthen the party, proposing to make her as AP BJP chief. RSS leadership is of the view that already Chandrababu Naidu’s downfall started, continuing to go with him would be suicidal. Her leadership would help to bring a division with in TDP ranks and also to attract substantial influential sections from TDP and other parties to join BJP.
But, she said to be already vexed with existing BJP leadership in the state and come to the conclusion it would be impossible task to revive the party here. So, she felt determined to settle with some official position.
Her joining with BJP itself was a very strategic move after sensing bleak future for Congress in post-bifurcation of the state. But, sudden development of BJP-TDP alliances denied her opportunity to contest from Visakhapatnam or Vijayawada and forced to go to Rajampet only to be defeated.
Even after formation of Narendra Modi government, she missed chances with the elevation of Nirmala Sitaraman into the cabinet. Later, she also missed an opportunity to become Chairperson of National Commission for Women, as a senior RSS leader, who matters much in Telugu states, mistakenly recommended to make her as `Mahila Morcha chief’, instead of `Mahila Commission’s chief’. So, she was made as Mahila Morcha chief. This makes her to attend party’s crucial decision making body of office bearers meeting, without having any formal position in the party.
