On the one hand the sins of the past are coming to haunt many of his Cabinet colleagues while on the other some more members are causing fresh trouble and landing the government in an embarrassing position.
Of course, Reddy is in an unenviable position as he himself faces the challenge of continuing in Chief Minister's post as the Congress party has suffered severe reverses in the state.
A qualified lawyer, he seems to be clearly adopting the "innocent-till-proven-guilty" principle in defending his colleagues even as the entire opposition and a section of the Congress are baying for the blood of the "tainted" ministers.
While one minister, Mopidevi Venkata Ramana, had already been arrested (in the disproportionate assets case related to Kadapa MP Y S Jaganmohan Reddy) and forced to quit the Cabinet, another minister Dharmana Prasada Rao was chargesheeted in the same case and set to exit.
Four more ministers