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Ashton Side Hero Username: Ashton Post Number: 6668 Registered: 05-2008 Posted From: 66.90.104.94 Rating: N/A |
September 26,2009.. | ||
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nenu date of publishing adiganu...
ee line ki doubt ochindi...may be chanipogane ochi untadi... in general PAWAN movie chudakapote navvutaru kada bayata..like u cannot ignore tirupathi balaji..aa type lo : Jp_rocks any hurricanes/tornadoes/tsunamies in the next coupla months will be named POWERSTAR : Jp_rocks | ||
Ashton Side Hero Username: Ashton Post Number: 6667 Registered: 05-2008 Posted From: 66.90.104.94 Rating: N/A |
Jagan babu atrocities... | ||
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yenatidi ee article ?? in general PAWAN movie chudakapote navvutaru kada bayata..like u cannot ignore tirupathi balaji..aa type lo : Jp_rocks any hurricanes/tornadoes/tsunamies in the next coupla months will be named POWERSTAR : Jp_rocks | ||
Ashton Side Hero Username: Ashton Post Number: 6665 Registered: 05-2008 Posted From: 66.90.104.94 Rating: N/A |
http://www.scribd.com/doc/19878372/Tehelka-Article-on-YS-Jag an The sudden disappearance of Chief Minister YSR Reddyâs helicopter on September 2, 2009 was undoubtedly a big shock; the discovery of his mangled helicopter a day later, tragic. YSR was only 60 and riding a power wave with his second term as chief minister. He had just delivered 33 MPs in the Lok Sabha election and seemed unstoppable. Everywhere in the world, untimely deaths have a way of creating rosy afterglows. In India, it can engender saintly halos â lunar-size. As news of YSRâs death was confirmed, hagiographies began to flood newspapers and channels: YSR the âpeopleâs kingâ, the âpopular CMâ, the master of thepadyatra. Weeping faces lined the driveway to his home. Then suddenly, through the crescendo of ritual mourning, a breakaway note was heard: Make Jagan CM, make Jagan CM. Within hours, it had become a raucous symphony. Not too many people outside the state had heard of YSRâs son, Jaganmohan Reddy, and if you watched the 36-year-old stoically receiving mourners, cupping everyoneâs chin, young and old, in a commiserative gesture, youâd imagine he had absolutely no hand in this spontaneous outcry. But the key to the Reddys â both father and son â do not lie in the careful constructs of their public life. Previously, YSR was a four-time MP from the Kadapa constituency in Rayalseema; he shifted to Pulivendula constituency later. In May this year, Jagan stood and won his first Lok Sabha election from Kadapa. Now, as the roar to install him as CM gained ground, the Congress High Command moved swiftly.Senior leaders like Digvijay Singh, Pranab Mukherjee and Veerappa Moily were sent down to the state. KVP Ramachandra Rao, YSRâs most trusted aide, an old medical college friend and current orchestra-conductor of the Jagan-as-CM campaign, was summoned to Delhi and told to button up. Jagan too was instructed to put out a formal plea on September 6 to wind down the song. Still, almost all the party MLAs in the state boycotted the first meeting called by the interim chief minister K Rosiah; and there were reports of an imminent split. SO WHAT rattled the Congress at the Centre? As first-time MP â that too only a hundred days old in Parliament â Jagan is hardly fit material for chief ministership. Besides, it would make for poor optics to pass the baton from father to son. But was that the only reason? And how was one to read his inexplicable popularity? Why were 152 MLAs clamouring for him? Was it merely good old Indian sentimentality, or was there more? Rayalseema, the Reddyâs home country, seems to hold many answers. Rayalseema is the legendary badlands of Andhra Pradesh â notorious for its endemic culture of violence, murder and unbridled factionalism. Bomb explosions, country-made, are routine there. (The saying goes, in Rayalseema, even an angry glance can attract a bomb attack). Lethal guns are the new entrants. A report in Frontline in 2005 said an astounding 670 Congressmen and 560 TDP men had lost their lives to factional rivalries in just the previous 15 years. Even the police admit that the âonly ideologyâ in these testosterone, faction-ridden villages is violence. (A lorry driver, for Godson? Awaiting the political call, Jagan has seamlessly assumed YSRâs public persona Photo: SHAILEDRA PANDEY YSR was one of the most powerful faction heads in Rayalseema. His father Raja Reddy, an affluent local contractor, thriving on the largesse of government contracts, was killed in a bomb attack in his native Kadapa district while driving home on May 23, 1998.According to news reports at the time, one of the accused, Perla Uma Maheswara Reddy, who sustained splinter injuries while attacking Raja Reddy, was hacked to death in retaliation on the same day. Four of the other accused died during the trial. Jagan Reddy is sprouted of this stock. In 2005, he was accused of orchestrating the murder of controversial TDP leader Paritala Ravindra. The police filed an FIR against him, but a CBI enquiry exonerated him. Still, many lesser stories abound of him unleashing his fury on police constables or inspectors who dared stand up to him. In one such incident, a police inspector caught several men hunting rabbits without license in Simhadripuram town. They turned out to be Jaganâs acolytes. When he landed up at the police station to rescue his friends, there was such a violent melee, the inspector locked himself inside the cell, refusing to come out. K Balagopal, an advocate and member of Human Rights Forum, who spoke to the policemen at the station after the incident, says, âAs comical as it may sound, this story is characteristic of the culture prevalent in Kadappa. Faction leaders here often kill to protect their gang and its interests.â In 2004, when YSR was elected CM, Balagopal wrote a scathing and exhaustive article, âBeyond Media Imagesâ in the Economic and Political Weekly detailing the violence that had underlined his rise to power. The chief minister was forced to respond to it when Indian Express editor Shekhar Gupta challenged him on it in a televised interview. Coolly, YSR dismissed it as entirely untrue. In off-the-record conversations, none of the familyâs close associates deny the legacy of violence that has marked the family. âItâs all about perspective,â says one intimate party senior. Another senior colleague from Jaganâs media corporation attributes the violence to âa fight waged by Jagan and his family for the downtrodden.â He continues, âThey have always been on the side of those who support them. They go to any length to protect the interests of those who are with them. Jagan understands these concepts very well.â Opinion on Jagan within the party is obviously very divided. A senior Congressman in Delhi says dismissively, âJagan is just a sleazeball, the spoilt son of a rich father, a money manager. He does not enjoy any spontaneous popularity in the state. Itâs just that these Reddys are a wild and vengeful lot. Many of the MLAs signed up thinking, god forbid, if he makes it to the post, we better have been supporting him.â Another senior party leader and Rajya Sabha member alleged that many of the signatures endorsing Jagan as chief minister were obtained under threat. CLEARLY, JAGAN and his supporters are not above a bit of stage-management. Within hours of YSRâs death, Sakshi channel, owned by Jagan, began to run a ticker saying grief-stricken people in the state were committing suicide. Other media organisations snowballed the rumour. Post that, the Congress Legislature Party began to put out periodic bulletins about the rising deaths. On last count, 462 people had died of heartbreak: 402 heart attacks, 60 suicides. However, on September 16, in a damaging report, Mail Today published a story detailing how many of these deaths had actually been of unrelated and natural causes. The reporter spoke to the relatives of many of the deceased: they said they had been paid an average of Rs 5,000 to pretend their kin had killed themselves over YSR. Like Rayalseema, Sakshi channel too offers many clues about Jagan. A capacity for violence is only one of the attributes people ascribe to him â the other is meteoric wealth. In June 2008, two months after he had launched his Telugu newspaper,Sakshi, Jagan gave a proud interview to an online publication. âIt feels great thatSakshi is currently the largest circulated Telugu daily with a 13 lakh circulation. WhatEenadu achieved in 30 years we have accomplished in 60 days,â he said. According to this interview, he also said Deloitte had valuedSakshi at Rs 3,500 crores. But Sakshi newspaper is only part of it. Media professionals also marvel at the money Jagan poured into his television channel. Some quick ballparks tell their own story: an average national channel has 10-12 DSNGs (smaller versions of OB vans) because it is an expensive proposition. Jagan got one each for all 23 districts of Andhra Pradesh and for the four metro bureaus. He wonât have to speculate long. There are proprieties that stop Indian democracy from being a medieval French monarchy. Yet money, power and a capacity for creating trouble have their own influence. Senior Congress leaders in Delhi say that Jagan might be made head of the state PCC, or a minister in the Cabinet, or even Deputy CM of Andhra Pradesh. Thatâs not bad for someone who is legitimately only a 100 days old in politics. With his long past and training under his father, thatâs only a step away from CM. |