More Kapu's Into PRP the follow continues!!!

As elections are fast approaching, leaders representing Kapu community are under tremendous pressure from their community people to desert their respective political parties and join Praja Rajyam Party.

On Tuesday, former deputy speaker and senior Congress MLA from Krishna district Booragadda Vedavyas, who represents Kapu community, has announced that he would be joining PRP. Vedavyas, supposed to be a close confidant of Chief Minister Dr Y S Rajasekhara Reddy, has been playing behind the screen role in PRP and already sent all his followers into that party. Now after getting an assurance from Chiranjeevi for a party ticket, he decided to take the jump.

So is the case with former minister and senior TD leader Kothapalli Subbarayudu from West Godavari district. Though he played active role in TD till recently and even participated in Chandrababu Naidu's road shows, Kothapalli is under pressure from his followers to join the PRP. On Tuesday, he skipped the TD Legislature Party meeting. He is likely to switch over to PRP in a day or two, sources said.

Vijayashanti Yagam or Vishwashanti Yagam

The Vishwashanti Yagam being performed by Telangana Rashtra Samithi president K Vijayarama Rao, supposedly for world peace and achievement of Telangana, has become a subject of ridicule, even within the TRS circles.

A veteran Telangana protagonist, who has been friend, philosopher and guide for the TRS president, himself was found cracking a joke on the yagam at Telangana Bhavan. Apparently irritated at the way KCR was pampering heroine-turned-Telangana leader Vijayashanti, this gentleman wondered whether KCR was performing "Vishwashanti Yagam" or "Vijayashanti Yagam."

Though KCR described Vijayashanti as his sister, those who is aware of his habits could make out his feelings while shaking hands with her on the occasion of her joining the TRS. They say KCR might perform Vijayashanti Yagam, too, some time later, if not in public!

Babu bhava maridhini kadhu ....NTR muddhu biddanu!!

The road shows of Yuvaratna Balakrishna, the star campaigner of Telugu Desam, has entered the fourth day and he is gradually opening up his mind on his future plans, much to the chagrin of TD president N Chandrababu Naidu.

Apparentlhy, Balaiah has realised that the people do not believe Chandrababu Naidu, nor do they have any soft corner towards him. So, he decided to take it upon himself to revive the glory of TD. In his road show in Kurnool district, Balaiah made it clear that he had to come into the people "not as Chandrababu Naidu's brother-in-law, but as son of late N T Rama Rao, to revive the past glory of Telugu Desam."

In Anantapur, too, Balakrishna told people that he would assume the responsibilities of implementing the promises made by Chandrababu Naidu in letter and spirit. "I will not allow anybody violating the promises made to the people," he said.

This is definitely an embarrassing situation for Naidu. He is now worried as to what extent Balaiah would go during his road shows. Don't be surprised, Naidu might even play spoilsport with Balaiah's roadshows midway!

Mundhu undhi musalla pandaga babu ki!!!

TDP president N Chandrababu Naidu might be on Cloud nine for bringing major opposition parties together to form Maha Kootami, but a lots of troubles are in store for him within his party.

According to party sources, there is a lot of disgruntlement among the party leaders and cadres over the number of seats allotted to Telangana Rashtra Samithi. Apart from the seats it contested in the last Assembly elections, TRS is asking several other crucial seats in Telangana, which is causing a lot of unrest among the ticket aspirants in TD, because in most of these constituencies, TD is very strong. So is the case with the seats being demanded by the Communist parties.

Though Naidu is requesting the party cadres to be prepared for sacrifices, it is unlikely to have any impact on them and in many constituencies, the Maha Kootami might face the problem of TD rebels.

Taking advantage of this situation, Chief Minister Dr Y S Rajasekhara Reddy is learnt to have asked the local Congress leaders to trap these TD rebels into the Congress fold. If there are any strong candidates among these rebels, Congress might field support them; otherwise, they would be encouraged to split the Oppositon votes. And if the Congress comes to power again, they would get suitable positions.

So, it is not so easy Naidu. You need to do your homework properly before joining hands with the allies.

Balaiah headache to Ramoji!!!

It is to be underlined that no English News Paper is giving coverage to Balayya's campaign. The reason is known. The people those prepare press note are getting confused of what Balayya is saying. They are unable to draft anything to drop in the offices of English dailies. And the news reporters from English dailies are also returning in silence without making any notes of what Balayya is saying. His confused speech is making the plight of TDP ruined.

On the other hand, ETV officials are also worried to give coverage for Balayya as people are laughing at his speech. Ramoji Rao worried that giving excessive coverage for Balayya's campaign would certainly affect TDP badly and hence telling his people to filter the content and show meekly. But the officials said it seems that there is nothing to trim and filter as everything in the speech is a trash. Ramoji is holding his head now.

It is now turn for Ramoji to educate Balayya in speech and also Chandrababu in the matter of giving orientation for Balayya before making him leap into campaigning on roads

PULI vs Angry young man

If one could remember Pawan Kalyan had commented on Rajshekar that the actor cannot speak proper Telugu, this had Rajshekar completely shaken and in his trademark style had his wife retort to Pawan Kalyan's remarks.Now, after much deliberation he has the incident inserted in his upcoming film Satyameva Jayate, and now he claims that he has an appropriate retort for Pawan Kalyan in the movie.That's interesting, but one doubt largely lurks in the audience's mind, and that is, if the retort (hopefully in Telugu) would be in Rajshekar's own voice, or in a dubbed voice? Rajshekar could make efforts to clarify on this aspect also.

CCC VS YSR : A special article

The time has come for the people of Andhra Pradesh and for that matter, the people of India to choose their next set of leaders to run the country for the next five years. Narrowing down, the focus has been on the political scenario in Andhra given the fact that there have been few really dramatic changes in the past year or two. So it is not just the Telugu folk but the entire nation that is keenly looking forward to see the outcome of this poll.

The strong contender is none other than Y S Rajasekhar Reddy who is the current Chief Minister but then this time he has got his strongest opponents in the form of the C-C-C triangle. They are Chandrababu Naidu, the TDP leader and head of the 'Maha Kootami', Chandrasekhar Rao, the leader of the Telangana Rashtra Samithi and last but not the least Chiranjeevi, head and founder of the Praja Rajyam Party. So it has become imperative for many political analysts to actually look at what sort of impact this trio will have on the chances of YS becoming the CM again.

Chandrababu Naidu who has been showing enough desperation to come back to power has now assembled the small forces to form a 'Maha Kootami' and not stopping at that he has also brought in the cine glamour in the form of the Nandamuri clan. However, it is widely believed that all this is a tight rope walk given the ideology of the political parties that are part of the 'Kootami' and the sudden switch on the Telangana issue has definitely cost the TDP a fair amount as it looked more a political decision than considering the sentiment of the people.

Whether Telangana is coming or not, every political party barring Congress has begun to sing the same song and it must be admitted that not many of them are really the true Telangana fighters or do not even know what the essence of all this is about. For now, the torch bearer for this happens to be KCR but then his association with Naidu has put him in the back seat and it is being noticed that he has been maintaining a low profile contrasting to his rough tongued nature. Sources inside TRS camp are saying that KCR has resigned to the fact that it is going to be YSR again.

Megastar Chiranjeevi who has come in with the image of 'Andarivadu' has been tasting a slice of reality and what it is like when you go into the midst of a common man and try to resolve the issues and problems. Though the hype of Chiru has been high, by no means was it able to create a Tsunami that was expected like the one in the year 1983 when the legendary NTR established the Telugu Desam Party. Already, there are reports that internal dissatisfaction has been creeping up slowly inside the PRP camp and the senior leaders who left their long associated parties to join Chiru are now said to be cursing themselves since they are not getting the due recognition. So it will be a backyard war first for Chiru before he actually takes on the regime of YSR.

All this apart, it is being said that YS has become a hero in the towns and interior areas of Andhra Pradesh given his dynamic initiatives like 'Arogya Sri' 'Indiramma Padhakam' and many other civil projects that he has undertaken towards agriculture. The rural and agricultural sectors are said to be quite positive on him and though the presence of C-C-C has been quite exhaustive and extensive for the various reasons, all roads are leading to Gandhi Bhavan for the next celebration of power. Let us wait and see how this goes.