YSR brings back life into the Cong
The Congress camp, which has been witnessing a sort of dullness for the last 10 days, has suddenly come alive. Chief Minister Dr Y S Rajasekhara Reddy, who was camping in New Delhi along with Pradesh Congress Committee president D Srinivas all these days, returned to Hyderabad and kicked off the campaign for the party formally on Friday. Definitely, it would have brought a new enthusiasm to the cadres, who have been suffocated with the onslaught from the Opposition parties from all sides.
Interestingly, the Chief Minister sounding the election bugle has been carried prominently by his rival dailies Eenadu and Andhra Jyothy, though Sakshi would anyway carry it at the top. Eenadu report says YSR has promised water, electricity and work to everybody and even announced that more seats would be given to backward classes. Andhra Jyothy quoted YSR as appealing to the people to bless the “Abhya Hastam” in the elections. Sakshi’s lead story was routine, with YSR claiming that the Congress would bag the gold medal in the election race.
Sakshi’s banner story is nothing but a retaliation to Eenadu’s top story of Friday. While Eenadu criticised how nationalised banks had granted out-of-turn loans to Bharati Cements owned by Y S Jaganmohan Reddy, Sakshi story on Saturday turned the tables on Ramoji Rao, who had allegedly borrowed more than Rs 800 crore by pledging even intangible assets like cinema reels, serials, scrap, newsprint and other material. The report appears to have been written out of revenge, indicating how far the two dailies stooped down to sling mud at each other, rather than highlighting people’s problems.
Both Eenadu and AJ did curtain raiser stories on Praja Rajyam party president Chiranjeevi’s “Vijayabheri” public meeting in Secunderabad. Chiru is expected to announce more populist schemes from the dais. They also carried Lok Satta president Jayaprakash Narayan’s train campaign, while Sakshi confined it to the news brief. On the other hand, it gave prominence to Daggubati Venkateshwara Rao’s book, which revealed certain facts about the August 1995 coup against NTR.
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