Performance without script!!

Mega Star or Yuvarathna, the plight is same. Both are dumb while speaking on stage. There is no graceful impact on public. They don't know what they are talking. And they have never given clarity on the agenda of their party. They could never make a quotable quote and never made any impact on the hearts of public.

Nagam Janardana Reddy of TDP said that Chiranjeevi's speech has got no punch. In fact he too knows that Balakrishna's speech is worse. But he cannot express that in public being a soldier in yellow brigade. Nagam said that Chiru and NTR have no comparison at all. That is true indeed. NTR could make a firm mark as natural speaker.

Chiru or Balayya need script to speak. They have got no brain-tongue coordination like NTR and many other political speakers.

Although Pawan Kalyan and Roja made some statements, they ended up as controversies but they cannot be called the outcome of great speech. Pawan Kalyan's ISI allegation on Shabbir Ali and Roja's innumerable controversial statements speak less about her. Nagendra Babu, Jr NTR and Tarakaratna are now tightening their belts to hit district tours aggressively.

I Congratulate 650 Behind 'Saakshi'

Allu Aravind has launched the sports section of Saakshi TV. He addressed "I congratulate Shri YS Jagan Mohan Reddy and 650-crew working for his channel. While I was on the way to this event, a political leader who is in opposition has called me and said that we are not going to that event, and we heard you are going, is that true? Then I answered him that it is the responsibility of every citizen, irrespective of any political party, to protect fourth estate and hence I'm going. I only wish that this channel runs in unbiased mode without going partial to any party".

Lok Satha JP Narayana adress at sakshi TV launch!!

Jaya Prakash Narayan has given a right form of educating address on the dais of Sakshi TV channel launch.

"Great man thinks what is right and sell that and an inferior man thinks what can be sold ands sells that. Journalism is great and hence it should sell only what is right. I request brother YS Jagan to protect the values of Constitution with his media channel. While we are looking at touching the sky there are many citizens who are deprived of any opportunity. Let us not increase this hiatus. The idea of India is in retreat. Politics is not war field. We are living under same umbrella of constitution. We are working for same people and same country. Let us not fight. Let us work towards a healthy society".

The hall roared with claps with this address.

Congree will Win : Survery Says

The ruling Congress would emerge the clear winner in the Andhra Pradesh Assembly polls, according to the latest opinion poll conducted by the CNN-IBN group.

A statement put out by the group said that 45 per cent of the respondents voted in favour of the Congress leaving the TD with 30 per cent of the votes, the BJP with nine per cent, and the Left parties with two per cent.

Chiranjeevi’s Praja Rajyam could gain only seven per cent of the votes though it had wide support among youngsters, minorities and the Madiga community. Around 73 per cent of the respondents expressed satisfaction at the performance of the state government and also endorsed the Chief Minister, Dr Y.S. Rajasekhar Reddy’s policies.

Interestingly, 57 per cent of the respondents felt that the YSR government was better than the previous TD regime. Pertinently, the survey said that 52 per cent of the respondents across the state were against a separate Telangana and only 27 per cent were in favour of it.

However, in Telangana, 63 per cent are in favour of a separate state and only 24 per cent were against it. The opinion poll was conducted by Centre for the Study of Developing Societies through a systematic random sampling from all socio-economic groups.

Renuka legal worries!!

Daredevil Union Minister Renuka Chowdary has run herself into a legal trouble with her outburst against Sri Ram Sena for attacking girls in a pub at Mangalore in Karnataka recently.

Mangalore mayor filed a criminal case against Renuka for accusing saffron brigade of trying to "Talibanise" India. The Mayor alleged that Renuka's comment amounts to instigating communal violence and degrading Indian culture. Since she refused to apologise, he filed a criminal case against her.

Renuka, however, is not relenting. She defended her comment, saying the way saffron brigade tried to impose its ideology on the people and particularly by attacking women in the name of cultural cleansing, was no way different from the activities of Talibans in Afghanistan. She is prepared to go even to jail for standing by her words

PRP+NTP make woo to BJP: A small story

One is desperate to prevent his political oblivion, and the other jittery over his political debut. In concerted moves by a veteran politician and a novice, a behindthe-scenes attempt is on to bring about an unlikely alliance of the Prajarajyam and the Nava Telangana Party with the Bharatiya Janata Party in the state.

While officially the three parties are denying any such move, sources in the PRP and NTP said Chiranjeevi has deputed T Devender Goud to woo the BJP into striking a poll alliance or at least a seat adjustment. “To take on thetwo major forces in the state — the ruling Congress and the TDP-TRS-Left combine — Chiranjeevi has directed Devender Goud to explore some sort of arrangement with the BJP,” sources told the media.

It was Devender Goud who had negotiated with the BJP on behalf of TDP president N Chandrababu Naidu after the general elections in 1998 to forge an alliance, which lasted for five years. “Goud who is finding himself politically marginalised after quitting the TDP and forming his own party, which failed to take off, is the mediator,” the sources said.

According to the sources, Goud held talks with Chiranjeevi and Naga Babu on the issue on Monday after which the NTP leader confabulated with BJP floor leader G Kishan Reddy the same day. “Devender Goud will lead a delegation to New Delhi to meet BJP’s prime ministerial candidate L K Advani and party president Rajnath Singh on Thursday,” the sources said.

Goud told at a press conference on Tuesday that his delegation will offer the support of the PRP and NTP to the BJP on the private members’ bill to be moved in the Lok Sabha by the right-wing party on Telangana on February 20. “But the agenda also includes forging some kind of understanding for the elections,” sources said.

The state BJP, however, is publicly maintaining that there is no question of any understanding with the PRP-NTP combine and that it would go it alone. But indications are that it is not averse to exploring a few options to expand its base in Andhra Pradesh.

The PRP and NTP have already announced that they will have a tieup for the coming general and assembly elections.

They are angry with Naidu

Telugu Desam president N Chandrababu Naidu's remarks that the Collectors are acting like Congress agents has kicked up a row at the Collectors' conference being held at Hyderabad on Tuesday.

Several Collectors found fault with Naidu for making such a comment. They said government was a continuous process, irrespective of change in the ruling parties. "We don't have our own personal agenda. Our duty is only to implement the agenda given by the government of the day. Once the election code of conduct comes into force, we all come under the authority of Election Commission. We cannot side with any political party. How can Naidu attribute motives to us?" a Collector argued angrily.

Ministers Anam Ramnarayan Reddy and Botsa Satyanarayana lashed out at Naidu for trying to blackmail the officials.