Karthika's resignation relieves Jayasudha

Actress-turned-Secunderabad Congress MLA Jayasudha is greatly relieved with the resignation of Banda Karthika from the Mayor post of Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation on Monday, paving way for theMajlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen candidate.
Jayasudha was feeling insecure to her position, as Karthika was eyeing on the Secunderabad assembly seat in the next elections.
In fact, Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy is believed to have promised to secure the Congress ticket to Karthika, as Jayasudha was moving in the YSR Congress party president Y S Jaganmohan Reddy camp. And Karthika began nurturing the constituency, moving actively in the Secunderabad constituency using her power as the Hyderabad Mayor.
Now that Jayasudha is back in the Congress fold, she is feeling threat from Karthika. She managed to prevail upon Kiran to keep aside Karthika and got an assurance for the party ticket in the next assembly elections as well. The resignation of Karthika under the MIM pressure gave Jayasudha a lot of relief, as she has to now work under her as a Congress leader and not as a contender.
In fact, it was Jayasudha who had campaigned for Karthika in the GHMC elections two years ago and got her elected as Tarnaka corporator.
Later, after becoming Mayor, Karthika started ignoring Jayasudha and behaving as an independent leader. She denied seats to Jayasudha’s followers in the ward committee elections.

MIM blackmailing fruitful

Till the other day, Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation mayor Banda Karthika Reddy was reluctant to step down from her post and was firm on continuing in the post for at least another one year.
Even Pradesh Congress Committee president Botsa Satyanarayana was bargaining with the Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen that the Congress wants to retain the Mayor post for another one year, after which it would be handed over to the MIM.
However, all of a sudden, Karthika agreed to resign from the post and Botsa declared that it would be given to the MIM.
One wonders what exactly happened in the last two days.
The answer was simple: the MIM is believed to have taken full advantage of the no-confidence motion introduced by the Telugu Desam Party in the assembly to pull down the Kiran Kumar Reddy government.
The Congress was alert to the reports that MIM president Asaduddin was a good friend of YSR Congress party president Y S Jaganmohan Reddy and if the Congress take a rigid stand on the Mayor post, he might ask the MIM MLAs to join hands with the Jagan party and vote against the Kiran Kumar Reddy government during the no-confidence motion voting.
Since the Kiran government is just counting the numbers to survive and every MLA is very important for it, the Congress party had no option but to succumb to the MIM pressures and give up the Mayor post.
After all, the Chief Minister position is more important than the Mayor post!