Does Chiranjeevi have it in him to become the Chief Minister?

Posted by on Mar 5, 2009 in Andhra Pradesh

The reception of the Chiranjeevi led Praja Rajyam Party appears to be a mixed bag. No doubt every road show of Chiranjeevi has brought in the crowds, but it looks as if people are only interested to see the face of a big hero in real which otherwise is a rarity. For the people, it is a free show to see their Megastar delivering his dialogues and the crowd having no need of buying any cinema tickets to watch the tamasha.

It is the youth (a section of it I must say) which has a lot of craze about Chiranjeevi, but most of them do not vote much to the worry of the PRP. The educated people look at Chiru’s credibility as a politician and there is enough proof that he hasn’t impressed many. The problem with the Praja Rajyam Party is that they have an unproven leader in Chiranjeevi while the rest of the party cadre is formed by discards of Congress and TDP. The critics of the PRP say that all the losers end up in this newly formed party. Some of the PRP leaders like Shobha Rani, Posani Krishna Murali, Hari Rama Jogaiah etc have poor image among the people.

Chiranjeevi’s slogan is ‘For Change’ in the lines of the US President Barrack Obama. But where is the Change when his party consists of a group of old discarded leaders of other parties? It is nothing but old wine in a new bottle isn’t it? There is absolutely no freshness whatsoever. Besides that Political experts are ridiculing PRP for not having any clear agenda. All we have heard is filmy dialogues like ‘Ganji ninchi Benzi’ from the man. Chiru has come out like a very soft man, not able to deliver any punches in his speech and not showing the aggression to take on his opponents Y.S.Rajasekara Reddy and Chandrababu Naidu! Will people vote for him keeping in mind the ‘Tagore’ movie or will they analyze his abilities as a Politician (which should always be the case) and base their judgment on that?

One big problem for ‘Annaiya’ Chiranjeevi is that there are several reports of his fans getting frustrated because they allege that they are not getting importance in the party affairs. It looks like they have been used for doing all the smaller work I suppose like flocking the public meetings, rallying behind Chiru as a show of strength, pasting posters etc but when it comes to getting party tickets, it is a different story altogether. There is a lot of talk that the PRP has been making business in selling MLA/MP tickets at enormous rates. Chiru’s brother-in-law Allu Aravind is the one who steers the party while the PRP is solely banking on the former film star’s image. There is just no charisma in the other leaders of the party. The biggest challenge for the PRP is to keep its flock together and really build good and clean images for its candidates. The only person to have brought in some life seems to be Pawan Kalyan for his aggressive take on the PRP’s opponents but everybody knows that he crossed the lines of decency.

As a common man I would like to test Chiranjeevi in the opposition. I would like to see his sincerity, whether he will have the same zeal to sit in the opposition, put pressure on the government like Chandrababu Naidu and other proven politicians or does he just want to become the Chief Minister straightaway. Is Chiru a person looking for a short cut entry to power rather than working his way up the ladder? Has he got it in him to wait for another 5 years to get the power? We will have to see all that, for now the odds seems to be against Chiru, he couldn’t even get a common symbol for his PRP till now!

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