TDP to rely on Babu's 'I'

Script will contrast hero's stint at helm of State to `corruption' and `anarchy' under villain successor

VV Balakrishna
Hyderabad, January 23:
The Title: I am Chandrababu Naidu.
The Producer: The TDP campaign media team.
The Script: I am N Chandrababu Naidu. Telugu Desam Party (TDP) president and former chief minister. I changed the face of the State during my nine-year stint. I introduced several welfare programmes and am responsible for the growth of the State in IT and other fields.
On Screen: Facing the camera, Naidu narrates how the State which had seen rapid development thanks to the schemes and reforms introduced by him had slipped into ``anarchy'' during the five-year tenure of the Congress.
Target: To woo voters in the next elections with the promise of good governance once again.
This is a television advertisement being produced by the TDP campaign team. The film, currently being shot, will be screened from February by the TV channels, over local cables and at all important railway and bus stations.
The aim is to project Naidu as chief minister and Opposition leader while flaying the Congress Government for its ``failures''.
Though the length and exact contents of the advertisement produced by the TDP are not yet clear, it is known that it will highlight the ``corruption'' in the Rajasekhara Reddy Government while publicising the schemes Naidu is planning to introduce.
Two prominent film personalities were involved in the making of the film, according to party sources.
Barack Obama, whose campaign Naidu had closely tracked, had released a similar advertisement. The Democrats had contacted each voter 10 to 15 times before the elections, Naidu recently told his partymen, and noted that Obama had highlighted the economic collapse and social unrest in the US. This surely indicates that corruption, economic offences and deterioration of law and order will be among the important issues on the poll plank of the TDP.
Taking heart from Obama's slogan of change, Naidu said: ``People are seeking a change in the State too.''