Jagan to fight!!!

So, it is confirmed, officially. Chief Minister Dr Y S Rajasekhara Reddy’s son Jaganmohan Reddy has confirmed in his own daily Sakshi that he is entering the electoral fray and would contest the elections from Kadapa, if given the ticket.

In his front page editorial of Sakshi on Wednesday, Jagan attacked Eenadu group chairman Ch Ramoji Rao directly for resorting to Goebel’s campaign on his Sakshi daily and challenged him to defeat in people’s field (praja kshetram). “I was hesitant to contest the elections, since I thought it would affect the credibility of my daily and channel because of your continued mudslinging on me. But now, it has been proved that you are attacking me with malicious intentions and people have understood your diabolical game plan of bringing your stooge Chandrababu Naidu back into power, I have been emboldened to enter the electoral politics. Let the people decide who is wrong and who is right,” he said in his editorial.

Well, it is time for readers to judge the sanctity of journalism not through the reports, but through public fighting. Whether one agrees or not, media has been politicised and the thin line between journalism and politics has disappeared.

Otherwise, the three dailies – Andhra Jyothy, Eenadu and Sakshi – gave top priority to Praja Rajyam Party president Chiranjeevi’s public meeting at Rajahmundry, which was a roaring success. Eenadu described it as “people’s tsunami,” Andhra Jyothy quoted Chiru as declaring that PRP would create a silent revolution and Sakshi quoted him as alleging that the Congress and TD had resorted to match fixing.

With regard to other stories on the front page, Eenadu carried a report saying Election Commission is definitely going to axe Director General of Police; while Andhra Jyothy published a curtain raiser on Jr NTR’s election campaign, quoting him as saying that time would decide his political future. On the other hand, Sakshi carried a report which says Mahakootami had no strength to defeat the Congress without the support of Madigas and another story about TD president N Chandrababu Naidu asking the Left parties to cut down their number of seats