HYDERABAD: Jaganmohan Reddy’s loyalist MLAs are impaled on the horns of dilemma. Having resigned their seats in the Assembly, they are said to be baffled by their leader’s pronouncements in Delhi during his mission to lobby opposition leaders. Sources said the Kadapa MP’s statement that he is not averse to supporting the UPA Govt has caused consternation among the MLAs who have staked their political future by supporting him.Sources said this lost tribe of legislators were drawn into no man’s land, deliberately or inadvertently, by Jaganmohan Reddy aides. In the immediate aftermath of the naming of Y S Rajasekhara Reddy in CBI’s FIR in the Jagan wealth case, they conveyed to J camp MLAs that it was the wish of the leader that they resign in protest. This signal was conveyed at a time when Jaganmohan Reddy was incommunicado during his Odarpu Yatra in Krishna district. But 29 MLAs went ahead and put in their papers.When communication lines were reestablished, however, the Kadapa MP is said to have told the 29 that he had given no diktat to resign, and therefore it could be surmised that they had done so of their volition. Sources said the MLAs were taken aback when their leader told them that if any of them had second thoughts about quitting, they were free to go back to the speaker and withdraw their papers. But with the die cast, the lost tribe now await the verdict of the Speaker on their resignations.Jagan’s current mission to Delhi has compounded the confusion in the minds of the MLAs. After Jagan told a national TV channel that his party would have nothing to do with the BJP and was open to a deal with the UPA, one member of the lost tribe said, “We don’t know what to do now. Our leader now says he is open to the UPA. But what’s to become of us?’’ Adding to the resignees’ consternation is the fact that Jaganmohan Reddy has received lukewarm reception from the opposition leaders he sought to meet in the national capital.
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