(Kuradi Chandrasekhar Kalkura)
Still, there are some of us carrying the memories of the Composite Madras State to Navyandhra; From Madras (Chennai) to Amaravati; From Tanguturi Prakasam in 1946 to Jagan Mohan Reddy.
Every one of them left footprints on the sands of time. Those printed in a commendable direction have withstood the onslaught of time and vagaries of nature. This is not to ponder over the achievements of each former Chief Minister. But an attempts to estimate the performance, during the short period of the Present incumbent, Y.S.Jagan Mohan Reddy.
To start with, young Reddy posed a promising dynamic leader. First impressions of the Bureaucracy, the Technocrats, the Media and even the people were satisfactory. His addressing the elders as ‘Anna’, a native Rayalaseema Culture was appreciated. There was a sign of a positive approach. Murmuring started with the demolition of the Praja Vedika at Undavalli, within a month from taking the oath of office. Though two months have passed, the wisdom behind the action is still the hot topic for discussion wherever there is an assembly of knowledgeable persons. It is admitted that the construction was on an encroached land, but at the cost of the exchequer and for a public purpose. It is not the private property of Chandrababu Naidu. Like a mathematical equation, always, two negative actions do not yield a positive result.
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At the heel of the episode, controversy is raised about the Naidu’s rented residential accommodation, also at Undavalli. There are all along the river bed, hundreds of fashionable residential bungalows. Pointedly earmarking the misdeeds of Naidu looks apparently vindictive. There may be specific reasons. All sorts of allegations, including that, in spite of the warning from Central Water Power Commission flood gates, were not opened at the Prakasam Barrage. An opportunity for unwarranted criticism should not have been given by the administration. Instead, it could have expressed sympathy to the former Chief Minister and the present Leader of the Opposition.
He is entitled to free furnished accommodation. The Govt would have graciously offered him an alternative in some upland area. That would have been sportsmanship. Naidu and the Party cadre would have been non-plussed.
Looking back, in 1977, when Indira Gandhi was defeated and the Janatha Party came to power, Elder Statesmen, Jaya Prakash Narain, J.B.Kripalani and Morarji Desai categorically stated that the greatest punishment for a politician is an electoral defeat. Indira suffered it. Leave her alone.
Choudary Charan Singh was hellbent on action against her for Emergency Excesses. Commissions were appointed; she was arrested; criminal cases were registered and both she and Sanjay Gandhi were tortured. The attention of the administration, the opposition and the people were deviated from the mainstream and diverted towards the byline.
Sympathy is not a static and stable factor. It shifts and vacillates towards the weak and the defeated.
Indira had no role to play in the unceremonious fall of the Janatha Govt. It was the making of the perverted stalwarts from within. Indira triumphantly bounced back to power within three years.
Reverting to A.P., there is any number of problems which demand immediate administrative attention. Thanks to the copious rains in the Western Ghats, catchment areas of the major rivers in the State, almost all the reservoirs are full. But more than half of A.P. suffers from drought. Still drinking water is a problem in many villages. Rain-fed crops are withering away. Rayalaseema, which pitching many hopes, gave Jagan enormous power; not achieved even by his father. Nothing is spoken about the region. In spite of the wise advice counsel from the Centre and the Judicatory, all preparations are being made for ‘Reverse Tendering’ of many projects including the most prestigious Polavaram. Adding insult injury to there is a loud talk about the shifting of the Capital from Amaravati. Yes, it was a controversial project and a monument of misdirection. But voluminous public resources are invested in it. The Capital and the unauthorised constructions were neither issues before the electorate nor included in the Election Manifesto of the YSRCP.
The unimpeachable blunder of Jagan is his honeymoon with Kalwakurthy Chandrasekhara Rao @ KCR the C.M. of Telangana. The country might not have experienced a more treacherous C.M.
He hobnobbed with the Congress and Sonia, for about a decade. Formation of Telangana was announced. Even before the ink dried, baldy let them down.
Do we need more evidence to prove KCR’s evil designs? Any friendly deal regarding sharing of Godavari Waters must be after a firm agreement with the consent of the other riparian states and at the intervention of the Centre.
The audited balance sheet of the Jagan’s Administration for the first three months is slightly sliding towards negativity.
Hope better counsel of the past matured experiences of the grand-old statesmen will prevail on the young darling leader.