Nandamuri Balakrishna pours milk on a statue of NTR
VV Balakrishna
Last Updated : 15 Jan 2012 08:28:33 AM IST
HYDERABAD: Nandamuri Balakrishna, actor son of legendary actor and Telugu Desam Party (TDP) founder N T Rama Rao, is all set to jump into electoral politics in 2014. Balakrishna has been campaigning for TDP for several elections now. However, Balakrishna recently declared that he would join the fray in the Assembly elections besides taking up the responsibility of campaigning for the TDP in the 2014 elections.
“I will contest in the elections. It is up to the party to choose the Assembly segment for me,” said Balakrishna, who is known for his punchy dialogue on screen and has an enormous fan following in Andhra and Rayalaseema regions, where the TDP is facing stiff opposition from YSR Congress Party.
Balakrishna’s daughter is married to Nara Lokesh, son of TDP president N Chandrababu Naidu. He may contest from Hindupur Assembly segment in Anantapur, the seat that sent his father to Assembly and made him the chief minister. Balakrishna is also helping Naidu to make vaastu changes to NTR Bhavan, the TDP headquarters, against bad luck.
Playing the role of Lord Rama in his latest movie Sri Rama Rajyam, Balakrishna tried to recreate the magic of his late father N T Rama Rao who had essayed both mythological and social characters with aplomb and won over Telugu hearts.
Balakrishna now wants to play NTR’s ace—self-respect of Telugus. A day after Balakrishna declared that he would jump into electoral politics, he said he decided to become active in politics only to protect the self-respect of Telugus. The current political situation in the state compelled him to jump into electoral politics, Balakrishna said.
He participated in a motorcycle rally from Kodali to Ghantasala and unveiled NTR’s statue there. Addressing a public gathering, Balakrishna declared that he would remain in active politics for the rest of his life. “I will protect the self-respect of Telugus like my father did,” he averred.
He alleged that the pride of Telugus was pledged in Delhi streets in the Congress regime. “I will strive hard to fulfil the aspirations of my father,” he said. Balakrishna recalled the development schemes and welfare programmes launched by NTR as chief minister. “NTR took daredevil decisions like abolishing the Patel Patwari system,” Balakrishna said. There is no one who can compare with NTR in the film industry, Balakrisha said, alleging that the 32 Congress MPs from the state did nothing for Andhra Pradesh.
“You see how many MPs of the DMK got the ministerial berths in the Union Cabinet with their strength of mere 18. Our MPs could not get even a good Cabinet post,” he said. In an indirect reference to the Praja Rajyam, he said the parties that were floated with the slogan of social justice were finally merged with the ruling Congress for the selfish interests of the founders.
Reminding his father’s popular Rs 2-a-kg-rice scheme, he said NTR supplied quality rice. The rice being distributed to the poor under Rs 1-kg scheme was inferior. Balakrishna said people were eagerly waiting for the TDP to come to power in the state as it would only solve their growing problems.
No comments:
Post a Comment