robin david tries to decipher the many sides of konda vishweshwar reddymoney begets power and power begets more money or at least that is what traditional logic says but one of indias richest politicians konda vishweshwar reddy is now without power more specifically he is without a political party he had joined trs in 2013 and left it in 2018 he then joined congress and left it last month he is now hoping to create a new political party in telanganareddy was the richest mp in the country between 2014 and 2019 with assets worth rs 528 crore after he won from chevella in telangana he was the second richest candidate in the 2019 elections with rs 895 crore he lost the election that year on a congress tickethe has political legacy too he is the grandson of konda venkata ranga reddy former deputy chief minister of united andhra pradesh the man ranga reddy district has been named aftertoday reddy is living in a world of contradictions he is in the process of bringing small regional outfits together onto one platform to create one mega regional party in telangana but he himself does not want to be involved in state politics he prefers being telanganas representative in lok sabha he does not mind being called the richest mp and richest candidate but cringes when called a rich businessman husband of apollo hospitals joint managing director sangita reddy he says i would like to be known as an academic entrepreneur and researcher insteadbut being called a rich politician was beneficial in some ways initially i was concerned about being called rich they would think arey ine paise wala hai ine aam admi ki samaysa jaante nai and all that he says with a touch of hyderabadi dakhni but to my shock it helped me a lot in 2014 people started saying he is a paisewala he does not need to take bribes and is a potential winner and by the way i am the richest only on paper almost every mp in telangana is richer than me these people can buy me over 2030 times i pay taxes they dontthe man who has a number of patents and copyrights to his name adds that even at this moment he is working on a unique rice transplanting machinestate politics is like wrestling with the pig in the mud for him and accepts that perhaps he is not cut out for it mp electoral politics is somewhat cleaner than assembly politics he insists in parliament no one throws chappals at each other the level of politics is lower in assemblies and the way parliament conducts everything even the budget is very differentaccording to him in parliament there would be a marginal difference between what the finance minister allocates for a particular section and what is actually given in states it is just the opposite there will be a 90 discrepancy also you need to be a bit of a street