
India is experiencing the festival of Democracy. This is the biggest festival of democracy in the whole word as India is the biggest democratic country. The general Lok-Sabha elections are being held in 7 phases from April 11th till May 19th. However, the election code is on from March 10th, the day the ECI (Election Commission of India) announced the poll schedule, in the whole nation. General Assembly elections are also being held in 11 states. Politicians began applying their mind to win the elections in any cost. Each party is very busy with preparing manifestos, campaigning strategies, candidate selections, advertisements, etc. The first phase of election is being held on 11th of April in 5 states including Andhra Pradesh.
Andhra Pradesh is the biggest state among those going for assembly elections. It is one of the states who play quite a crucial role in the national politics. The state is now being led by the India’s most senior politician Mr. Chandra Babu Naidu of Telugu Desam Party. On April 11th, they are going to test their luck along with the opposition parties YSR Congress party led by Jagan Mohan Reddy and Jana Sena Party led by Telugu’s most popular actor Pawan Kalyan. Everybody is putting their every bit of resources into the elections to come into power.
While leaders are quite busy with impressing the voters in their particular constituencies, the people are quite busy with predicting the winners and losers. Every common man has their own predictions based on their logics and reasons. But, they also look for the predictions by expert Psephologists, which are known to be ‘Opinion Polls’.
The Latest survey on AP politics 2019 is the Opinion polls by ‘News X’, the leading news channel in India. It has come up with interesting figures. The survey tells that the current party which is in power, Telugu Desam Party is leading in the state with 47% of vote share where all other parties are lagging behind. This purely depicts that the Telugu Desam Party is going to form the government again in the state of Andhra Pradesh with good majority. This is a very good sign for both the party and the state before the elections.
One of the questions posed by the survey is “who according to you is best suited to be the chief minister of Andhra Pradesh?” and 46% of the people responded Chandra Babu Naidu. It doesn’t come to me as a surprise because Telugu people belong to one of the most informed and intellectual lots of India. They do not have a trouble looking at and comparing the curriculum vitae of the candidates running for the chair.
Here is a brief summary of Chandrababu Naidu’s experience so far. He was a student union leader by the age 25 and was an MLA by 28. His thoughts and leadership attracted traction from hierarchy of his party, but he had to leave because of internal politics and other issues. His father in law gave him a place in TDP and there, CBN found his voice.
A decade later, a woman called Lakshmi parvati approached NTR to record his biography. It isn’t hard for a woman to speak certain way, to act certain way and to roll eyes and waist certain way and entice a man they want for themselves. She saw power and wealth and respect and charisma, all encapsulated in one man, Nandamuri Rama Rao. Nobody knows what happened between them, except the fact that they got married. And soon, she, with her female charm and men-luring ability, got hold of the most powerful and popular party of then Andhra Pradesh, the TDP, by subtly manipulating the emotional support and care starved NTR.
CBN saw the future of the party and the state falling into the hands of a manipulative snake, he had to take a step for what it’s worth. Lakshmi’s agenda is now clear to every top official in the party, she is now on a race to CM and NTR is her slave already. NTR wouldn’t listen to anyone except Lakshmi. Party is about to get jeopardized and CBN took the initiative. He collected support form MLA’s and became the CM and the rest is history. Opposition party uses this incident in almost every campaign to bring down CBN’s credibility. Everyone knows the truth, it’s just the fact that common people are sheep and are bound to go places where their shepherd takes them.
Since that day, CBN made pals with bill Clinton, Bill Gates, presidents and prime ministers of Indonesia, Japan, Korea and many powerful people across the world. All chief ministers across the country know him and their support is only a call away. Where does Jagan stand against this experience? Nobody even knew him until his father died. And like every rich spoilt brat out there he un-ashamedly uses his father’s name to further his political career. It is just similar to saying, ”Hey you know what? My dad used to rub his ass with silk. Here, touch my ass and see how smooth it is.”
There are bigger players out there like Modi, Amit shah, Sonia Gandhi among others. Lets assume Jagan became a chief minister and he goes to one of them asking funds to develop the state. The first time, they may politely reject him. They show a little disrespect the next time he asks for funds. There won’t be a third time because, how hard it is for a prime minister to open up a new case against the “insignificant speck of dust” Jagan and make him eat Jail food? How hard it is for them to pull his strings and make him scratch his head in the face of uncertainty? Can he summon help from powerful leaders of other states? Does he even know them? And meanwhile, just imagine what can happen to the new born infant Andhra Pradesh under his screwed up and direction less leadership.
Even if none of that happened, nothing good can be expected from Jagan’s rule. Just look at his policies, there is never a mention of vision or development. All he does is hurl abuses at CBN and talk about distributing tax payer money to expectant poor. That is not how an opposition leader in race to becoming chief minister should be talking. He says “I heard you, I am there for you” in his public meeting but how come he never mentioned people’s distress in assembly. Oh, I forgot, one has to go to assembly to express opinions right. How can one go to assembly if he is so busy sitting at lotus pond and trying to come up with new abuses towards CBN?
Most people in Andhra Pradesh are educated, most of them know right from wrong, good from bad. This simple fact reflected in the survey that 46% people think CBN should be the next CM of the state.

