When Congress general secretary K.C. Venugopal arrived in Hyderabad for a meeting with party leaders a fortnight ago to outline a campaign strategy against the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), he would hardly have expected the kind of vitriolic attacks that the two parties have engaged in over the issue of reservation which has now caught the country’s attention.
The powerful political narrative pushed by Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy in his election campaign has seemingly left the BJP rattled, so much so that even Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah have had to take up cudgels on behalf of the party.
Even RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat had to step in and clarify that the RSS was not against reservation.
