Hyderabad : When union minister Chiranjeevi’s estranged son-in-law Sirish Bharadwaj met the Gujarat Chief Minister and got tremendous publicity in the media, everyone felt he would get important place in the party. It was also thought that he would get prominence in the recent public meeting addressed by Narender Modi.

Sirish even erected some banners with his photos with Modi. But he was nowhere seen in the meeting.

Talk is that Chiranjeevi used his clout to get Sirish snubbed.

Even the local BJP leaders are irritated that Sirish started acting as if he was a big leader and was behaving independently.

Though Chiranjeevi’s intervention was not confirmed, his brother-in-law Allu Aravind who is a tremendous schemer, meeting Modi before the public meeting gave doubts that Chiru used his clout to ensure that Sirish becomes a nonentity in the saffron brigade.