Radha Krishna back to chiru promotion!!!

Has Andhra Jyothy managing director V Radhakrishna once again taken up the task of promoting Praja Rajyam Party president Chiranjeevi in the elections? One would get the doubt after seeing the front page of the daily on Wednesday. Barring a box item against Congress MLC Premsagar who was caught red-handed with Rs 3 crore hard cash by the Income Tax officials, the entire page was dedicated to Chiranjeevi’s road show in Krishna district and his brother Pavan Kalyan’s interview. There is nothing else to read in the front page of the daily. Initially, Radhakrishna was trying promote Chiranjeevi and project himself as a kingmaker, on the lines of Eenadu group chairman Ramoji Rao, who propped up Telugu Desam founder-president N T Rama Rao and later N Chandrababu Naidu. But, with Chiranjeevi keeping Radhakrishna at bay (obviously because of caste equations), he went back to promoting the TDP and attacking YSR. In the last few days, Radhakrishna has been attacking Sujana group’s Y S Chowdary, a close associate of Naidu and giving prominence to Chiranjeevi, though he was also highlighting Jr NTR’s road show. This has given rise to the doubts that Chiranjeevi might have sought Radhakrishna’s help in projecting the PRP and one does not know the details of bargaining between the two. In Eenadu, too, there is no major news on the front page, except an expected analytical report on high command overruling several of Chief Minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy’s suggestions in the selection of MP candidates for the elections. Apart from that, there are a couple of photographs of Chiranjeevi’s and Jr NTR’s road shows. Chiranjeevi’s promise of providing LPG at Rs 100 was also highlighted at the top. On the other hand, Sakshi’s banner story is about Indiramma housing scheme coming to a grinding halt due to implementation of model code of conduct and the Opposition parties raising needless controversies. It was a sort of explanation from the government for not completing the houses in time. Apart from IT officials arresting the Congress MLC at the Delhi airport, all the other stories are political press conferences: one by Naidu, defending his relationship with Jr NTR and another by Daggubati Venkateshwara Rao, who explained the pathetic childhood of Jr NTR.

Balakrishna Head replaced with chiru head!!!

Political campaigning is unveiling curtains for lot of creativity. While PRP chief Chiranjeevi has introduced his masks to pump enthusiasm in his fans and flag bearers, a hardcore fan Mathi Venkateshwara Rao has taken 10 steps ahead to morph an image of Balayya with Chiru's head. The famous Sri Krishna Devaraya get up of Balakrishna is being used by Chiru now. You can see the pic above. That was the still of Balayya who portrayed that role and entertained many Telugus in home and abroad. Probably Chiranjeevi might have felt that since he cannot do such role anytime in his life time, it is nice to see in this morphed picture. We don’t know what Mathi Venkateshwara Rao got from Chiru with this.

Jr NTR Road Show Gallery

Jr NTR is mad Fellow

Whether the Congress leaders agree or not, Chief Minister Dr Y S Rajasekhara Reddy is definitely disturbed with the way Telugu Desam star campaigner Jr NTR is taking the north-coastal Andhra by storm with his road shows.

For the first time, Jr NTR made a new allegation against YSR: that he had conducted padayatra in 2003 not to understand the problems of farmers, but to make a physical survey of lands to be occupied in the name of Special Economic Zones after the Congress came into power.

YSR refused to react on Jr NTR’s comments, when media persons asked his comment. “I cannot react to such allegations being made by a mad fellow. People know the reasons for my historic padayatra. You don’t ask me such questions,” he shouted at the media in New Delhi.

'Maha Kavyam' On Jr NTR by AJ

There are times when admiration turns into obsession but then things tend to get really ridiculous when some responsible entities of the society tend to do that mistake. Something like that seems to be happening right now with the Andhra Jyothy folks and their passion for the new boy in politics.

He is none other than Jr NTR and barely three days since he has begun his political tours that the established and esteemed Andhra Jyothy folks came up with an epic story of his. Those who have read it were in dismay as it reminded them of the great Allasani Peddana known for his choice of words.

Apparently, Jr NTR has been lifted sky high with the detailed description about him, his mannerisms and his words but then most of the readers have been quite repulsive about it as they feel that it looks more like an obsession and a childish gesture to promote their thoughts than come out as a mature media avenue.

Andhra Jyothy has been struggling to promote TDP in the best way possible. But so far they could find all duds from Balayya to Tarakarathna where there is no scope for ‘maha varnana’. Now they could find Jr NTR with some hope and hence Radhakrishna is digging out Allasani Peddanas, Tikkanas and Nannayas from Andhra Jyothy desk team.

Face 2 Face : Shabbir to Jr NTR

The state minister for power, Mr Md Ali Shabbir, on Monday asked TD campaigner Junior NTR to first secure marital status for his mother, Ms Shalini, before talking about social justice in the state.

Addressing a media conference, Mr Shabbir said though Mr Harikrishna, son of the late N.T. Rama Rao, is continuing his relationship with Ms Shalini, she has not been recognised by NTR’s family members yet.

He recalled his commenting on actor Pavan Kalyan’s relationship with Ms Renu Desai. He said he had then pointed out that Pavan, brother of the Praja Rajyam chief Chiranjeevi, had not married Ms Desai even after procuring divorce from his first wife. The minister said Pavan realised the mistake and married Ms Desai. Mr Ali asked Junior NTR to put pressure on his father Mr Harikrishna to see that Ms Shalini gets marital status.

Mr Ali ridiculed the Telugu Desam chief, Mr Chandrababu Naidu’s announcement of 12-hour of free power to all farmers in the state at daytime. He asked why had Mr Naidu supplied power for just seven hours — that too with charges — during his tenure. The power minister accused the former chief minister of booking cases against almost one lakh farmers in the state during his rule.

Vijayashanthi disppointed with him!!!

Who should contest from Medak parliamentary constituency? That was the dilemma of Telangana Rashtra Samithi president K Chandrasekhara Rao for the last few days.

According to reports, KCR wanted to contest from Medak, leaving his Karimangar seat to his son K Rama Rao. So, he asked his new-found friend and TRS secretary general Vijayashanti to move to Malkajgiri or Zaheerabad. In fact, Vijayashanti was originally promised Karimnagar seat, but with Rama Rao evincing interest in LS seat, KCR was compelled to ask her to choose the other two seats.

Vijayashanti reportedly got upset with KCR and did not attend TRS office for two days. Finally, KCR had to go to her residence, pacify her and agreed to field her from Medak and he decided to go back to Karimnagar. What can Ramu do, if father himself wants to contest from his seat?