SOUTH-New Configurations in Andhra

SOUTH New Configurations in Andhra Mohit Sen THE announcement that Brahmananda Reddy has been appointed Chairman of the Finance Commission was also the formal declaration that his faction had wound itself up in Andhra. What had seemed so powerful and pervasive proved to he utterly hollow, illustrating the superficiality of the view that there are omnipotent state bosses in the Congress. Indeed, there had been any amount of speculation that by unseating Brahmananda Reddy the Prime Minister was taking the top off a volcano. It was not, however, a dormant volcano that she was tackling but an ant heap that crumbled at a kick, the ants scurrying off elsewhere, too terrified even to bite.