Chiru gets eggs on face during yatra
Warangal:
Actor-turned-politician Chiranjeevi was thoroughly shaken on Tuesday after suspected Telangana Rastra Samiti (TRS) activists threw eggs at him during his road show at Narsampet. The actor’s aggressive fans, who had chased and attacked actor Rajasekhar and his family across the state for a mere comment against Chiranjeevi, were nowhere in sight when their hero fought off a shower of eggs.
But they made up for this lapse later by thrashing the egg throwers and indulging in vandalism in Nekkonda, Jangaon, Warangal, and other places. A red-faced Chiranjeevi halted his road show at a rice mill on the outskirts of Narsampet and took a bath before regaining composure. Chiranjeevi fans also took out protests and indulged in vandalism at Nekkonda, Jangaon, Warangal and other places.
“I am a man of courage and I would not leave the battlefield because of this,” he said at the next stop of his Praja Ankitha Yatra. “I am determined to bring in a positive change in politics.” He also made appeal to his fans to show restraint which they ignored. Narsampet police took into custody three students, Samudrala Ashok, Puli Rajkoti, and Marri Anil, into custody for the egg attack and are checking their political affiliations. It is believed that TRS activists attacked Chiranjeevi because of his vague stance on separate Telangana.
Warangal:
Praja Rajyam (PR) president Chiranjeevi, who was inhibited to make direct allegations against the ruling Congress or other parties, has started naming the parties and making allegations. Addressing a well attending road show meeting at Mulug, where he began his third day of Praja Ankita Yatra in the district on Tuesday, alleged that the Congress government took up Jalayagnam initiative only to make money.
He also threw challenge to the Congress government that he was ready to prove the rampant corruption in the irrigation projects taken up in the state.
Launching a scathing attack against the ruling party, he alleged that the government was selling away the lands and water and they would also sell the remaining panchabutas.
He predicted that the day would come when the ruling party would sell away the air, which is the part of the panchabutas, very soon.
Interacting with the school students on the outskirts of Mulug, Chiranjeevi exhorted them to become doctors, engineers, astronauts or any other professional but not to become corrupt in their professions.
Venturing into the agriculture fields, he interacted with the women at Bollonipally village and enquired with the women if they were still treating him like a cine star or a politician.
The women replied that though they liked him as movie star, they were also hoping that he would bring change in politics too.
At the road show meeting in the village, the PR chief invited an Anganwadi worker, Uma Rani, onto his van and gave her opportunity to speak.
She narrated that their jobs were not being regularised and they were being paid a paltry sum and youths were not getting jobs.
Impressed by her oratorical skills, Chiranjeevi asked her to give her address to his party leaders and had invited her to work for the Praja Rajyam. He assured her of good recognition.
He stated that new leaders would bring in freshness to politics and would herald positive change, while the old leaders fail on this front. Students and youths were turning out in large numbers for his road shows but his speeches were lacking punch to galvanise the crowds.
Anantapur:
A leadership crisis is haunting the Praja Rajyam (PR) launched by actor Chiranjeevi in the Anantapur district. As the state and district committees are not formed, leaders are taking up activities without coordination. The PR is facing problems due to differences between leaders of Chiranjeevi fans associations, who have been supporting the actor for so many years, and leaders, who recently joined the party from other parties.
There is allegedly a fight for supremacy among the PR leaders in the Anantapur district. Local PR leaders are upset as leaders from other areas were appointed as in-charges to supervise flag hoisting, planting of see-dlings, membership enrolment and other activities of the party.
There are also allegations that SC, ST and BC leaders were not given importance while appointing leaders from the district as in-charges for other districts. Leaders of Chiranjeevi fans associations allege that leaders, who recently joined the PR, are not giving importance to them.
It is also learnt that several leaders are sending anonymous complaints to the party high command on one another as part of the fight for supremacy and also to get tickets. Some PR leaders are taking up party activities in the two Lok Sabha and 14 Assembly constituencies without coordination. There is no response to the activities of the PR in rural areas of the district. Some leaders are claiming that they would get the party ticket in the next elections. Chiranjeevi fans and the PR activists feel that if the present situation continues the party will face problems in the district.
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