ANUMULA REVANTH REDDY THE MAN WHO ONCE SAID, 'MY TIME WILL COME'

"I WILL see your end. My time will come". This was Revanth Reddy to K Chandrasekhar Rao, the first chief minister of India's youngest state, in 2015.

- IREDDY SRINIVAS REDDY

Revanth had been arrested after being caught red-handed by the Anti-Corruption Bureau for allegedly offering ₹50 lakh to a nominated MLC to vote in favour of the candidate of his then party, TDP.

Rewind to 2009. YS Rajasekhara Reddy was the chief minister of undivided Andhra Pradesh and Telangana seemed a distant dream.

Revanth played a key role in persuading KCR to contest from the Mahbubnagar Lok Sabha segment in order to strengthen Telangana sentiment in the southern part.

The TRS supremo heeded, a counsel that Revanth would come to regret later.

Revanth was not yet an MLA in 2009. Back in 2007, the 38-year-old won MLC elections as an independent. YSR is said to have asked him to join the ruling Congress. But Revanth chose the TDP, as he felt an opposition party would offer more scope for a youngster to make a mark the same feisty nature, the fighting spirit that everyone across the country is now aware of after he dethroned the seemingly NEWS and became the second CM of Telangana.

With the ruling TRS (later BRS) decimating the TDP in Telangana, Revanth joined the Congress in 2017 and soon became its working president.