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He might have passed his prime time of life but still manages to look as young as a late 40 year old even at 69. He is none other than Murali Mohan and with his new assignments in MAA and now the political debut; Murali Mohan is getting more and more famous with passing time.
Recently, the Zee Telugu channel was shooting the Swara Neerajanam program and this had Murali Mohan episode wherein hit songs from his movie were sung by participants. One among that was the famous song that had Murali Mohan and the Sahaja nati Jayasudha in it.
Recalling his thoughts about Jayasudha, Murali Mohan mentioned that both of them have done many movies together. He stressed that whatever role they have done on screen, Jayasudha is like his sister in real life. Now, folks have been wondering as to what was the need for Murali Mohan to come out with that statement although not asked. Any ideas??
The Lok Satta Party (LSP) has refuted the charges made against party president Jayaprakash Narayan by his Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) rival in Kukatpally, Sudarshan Rao, in a television programme. Here is the LSP’s point by point rebuttal.
Assuming that JP gets elected, what can he accomplish as a single MLA? The LSP says that it will win more seats than the TRS. Moreover, the LSP has invoked its sense of purpose and credibility and said one LSP MLA is equivalent to 100 MLAs from other parties.
Lok Satta is all talk and no action.
The LSP lists its achievements: Right to Information Law, Political Funding Law, Citizen’s Charters in municipalities, Candidate Assets’ Disclosure Law, campaign against criminalisation of politics and empowerment of local government.
What has the LSP president done before and what will he do for the constituency? JP has rehabilitated thousands of families displaced by the Vizag Steel Plant. As Collector of Prakasam district, he brought 1,60,000 acres under irrigation and turned around the AP State Co-operative Bank. His plans for the constituency include consistent supply of safe drinking water and plan to tackle drainage system, housing plan to let slum dwellers live with dignity, access to quality education to every child from 1-12 standard, citizen access to free healthcare and reskilling programme for the unemployed.
JP will be inaccessible to the people in the constituency.
The LSP has reacted by saying that their party president will not be accessible to goondas and land-grabbers but to everyone else.
Where is social justice in Lok Satta? The LSP has asserted that it understands the term better than `all these candidates’. Even if the term is narrowly defined, then for 249 Assembly seats, the LSP has nominated 88 BCs, 42 SCs, 15 STs, 10 minorities, 28 women and one physically challenged candidate.
The Praja Rajyam Party seems to have become the venue not just for dramatic situations but also for power struggles. Right now, a battle is said to be on between two big names in the party and that is happening in a hush hush manner. They are Allu Aravind and Chegondi Harirama Jogayya.
Apparently, this one is said to be over the second in command for the party after Chiranjeevi. Chegondi is said to be of the view that given his political exposure and experience, he is the right candidate but then the master movie maker Allu Aravind is said to be thinking otherwise.
While the power game is on, sources from PRP say that Allu Aravind might have an upper hand in this one given his strong tie-ups with Chiru. He may not be having the political exposure but then his levels of confidence and his shrewd way of handling things sure makes him the smarter choice, Allu believes.
But it is said that Chegondi is cracking jokes on Allu Aravind at his close circles while Aravind is making fun of Chegondi in his circles. This mockery may burst in public soon if left like that.
Jayaprakash Reddy, who plays a typical Rayalaseema villain in Telugu films, has favoured a Rayalaseema leader to campaign in politics.
On Saturday, Jayaprakash Reddy joined the Congress party in the presence of Chief Minister Dr Y S Rajasekhara Reddy, a Rayalaseema strongman and declared that he would campaign for the Congress in the elections.
His role of a typical Rayalaseema factionist in the film “Samarasimha Reddy” has earned him a lot of favour. Incidentally, the hero in that film, N Balakrishna, whose thigh thumping and moustache twirling has become a synonymous with Rayalaseema culture, is now campaigning for the Telugu Desam party. Who knows Balakrishna and Jayaprakash might face each other at some place during the campaign?
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Behind The Scene: Why Andhra Jyothy Is Silent?
Andhra Jyothy daily has been keeping silent without throwing cold water on Congress from quite some time. What could be the reason?
When inquired it was revealed that Radha Krishna is worried for Nookarapu Surya Prakasa Rao getting ticket from TDP. As Nookarapu is an enemy to Radha Krishna, he lost interest on TDP and not attacking Congress. It is also said that Radha Kishna is afraid of Nookaparu getting stronger than him in the eyes of TDP if he wins in this election.
On the other hand other sources said that he is afraid looking at present scenario. As Congress has huge potential of winning in elections, Radha Krishna is planning his future. He wants to survive in coming Congress government and hence not taking bigger risks.
The latest and hottest issue happening in the Praja Rajyam Party is not the election plan but the battle between Allu Aravind and the rest of the dissidents. So finally, Allu decided to drop curtains on all that and came up for press meet. He was charged up emotionally and lashed out at all who accused him.
Top in the list was Parakala Prabhakar. However, stressing his loyalty towards Chiranjeevi, Allu said that he would not let even a bullet get to Chiru without passing him. He also made it clear that he would be worried and react only if Chiru questions his integrity. This line has raised few eyebrows.
The emotional press meet from Allu Aravind seems to strengthen the gossip that Chiru indeed questioned Allu on the happenings. Allu was worried a lot for Chiranjeevi questioning his integrity regarding selling tickets. Reports say that the meet from Allu Aravind was solely due to the ‘touch up’ that Chiru had given to him. He indirectly addressed Chiru that he was hurt for questioning him. So Bava-Bavamaridi strife has begun.
With the first phase of elections just three days away, the Congress and the Grand Alliance have begun calculating how to reach the magic figure of 148.
Each party has survey reports predicting its victory. However, the worrisome caveat in each of the surveys is that the overall outcome depends on the poll percentage and polling in traditional strongholds of the parties.
Neither party is able to predict the outcome with any confidence. The voters have preferred to be silent, listening to all the campaigners and turning out at their rallies.
Another factor is the presence of rebels of all parties in the fray. Party leaders fear that while most rebels cannot win, they could steal chunks out of the traditional vote and hit its chances.
The first phase of elections will see polling in 154 seats in Telangana and north Andhra. In the second phase, elections will be held to 52 seats in Rayalaseema and 88 seats in coastal Andhra.
Congress surveys project 175 seats overall for the party: 60 in Telangana, 35 in Rayalaseema and 80 in Andhra. This figure has more or less stayed constant.
In Telangana, the Congress survey predicts 31 for the TD, TRS 9, CPI and CPI(M) 3 each, two for the Praja Rajyam and seven for the MIM. It says in another four segments the contest between the Congress and the Grand Alliance is deemed too close to predict.
The Congress gives itself 36 of the 45 seats from which the TRS is contesting, owing to the Telangana party’s internal rivalries, weak candidates, absence of statehood factor the possibility that it may not get alliance partners votes.
The TD’s internal assessment shows 45 seats for itself in Telangana, 10 for the Left parties and 25 for the TRS, totalling 80 out of 119 seats in the region.
Chiranjeevi’s Praja Raj-yam, which has been written off by both the main contenders, is expecting a “silent wave” in its favour.
Lok Satta is swallowing TDP in urban areas. A good majority of educated voters are tending to vote for Lok Satta. It is revealed that the SW groups had favoritism for Chandrababu till a few months back but now Lok Satta Jaya Prakash Narayan replaced that. Many such voters those have shown loyalties for Naidu have now shifted their interests to Jaya Prakash Narayan. There is evidence for this as SW employees are campaigning for JP on roads of Kukatpally today. The biggest loss due to Lok Satta is being faced by TDP. Naidu always used to boast that SW employees are behind him. But those days have gone as and when he made senseless promises to people with color TVs, free rice etc. Well Lok Satta is crwoling ahead of TDP in urban localities.
When young Tiger Jr NTR took off with his road shows in the Vizag and the Srikakulam regions, there was a huge response in terms of crowds. Similarly, when power star Pawan Kalyan came to these places, the response has been equally same with many people coming to his meet.The interesting part is, the same faces that were seen during the NTR meet were also found to be attending Pawan meet. When asked about it, they say that the idea of coming to the meet was not out of political support but just to see the stars. This has been the case with mobs in road shows.So, it has now become evident that star power only works for the road shows. But it does not work at the polling booths. Maybe that’s one fact both TDP and PRP must realize given the amount of cine glamour they have used for this elections.
Mr Tera Chinappa Reddy of Nalgonda district, who is contesting on a TD ticket from Nagarjunasagar in Nalgonda district, has been declared the richest among candidates contesting in the first phase of Assembly polls on April 16. His assets are worth Rs 85 crore.The National Election Watch released the details of the 1,833 candidates contesting in 154 Assembly constituencies that go to polls in the first phase. NEW secured the details under the RTI Act. Mr Kasani Gnaneshwar of Mana Party from the Qutbullapur in Ranga Reddy district has assets worth Rs 41 crore and is the second richest candidate.
Ramoji Rao has given strict warnings for his ETV 2 crowds not to work on any political surveys to roll on small screen. He said it seems that TDP is doubtful and hence it further brings damage if actual figures are shown in survey. Ramoji knows that Congress is going to grip majority in this election but not willing to announce that by any chance. In fact there is chance for ETV2 to manipulate figures in their survey and project TDP is stronger. But people would laugh seeing that as majority channels are saying Congress would win.
Almost all the TV channels are coming up with surveys but ETV 2 is not. The reason behind that is as said above.
On the other hand the district editions of Eenadu are saying that Congress would lose in Cuddapah distric completely. It also said that YSR may win from Pulivendula only if luck favors him. It added that there would be toughest fight for YSR from TDP. People laughed reading that joke of the season in Eenadu.
