HYDERABAD: Playing a second innings is not uncommon for actors. Bollywood siren of the 80s Jaya Prada is now contemplating a second innings in Andhra Pradesh politics. Jaya’s political fortunes haven’t been very favourable of late and in order to revive them intends to return to her janmabhoomi. Jaya has recently hinted at returning to her alma mater-the Telugu Desam Party (TDP).
The sitting Member of Parliament from Rampur in Uttar Pradesh has gauged that there is not much action left for her in the Samajwadi Party now. The actress who had recently come to Tirupati to seek the blessings of Lord Balaji on her 50th birthday was heard speaking praises of TDP chief N Chnadrababu Naidu. Jaya seems to have forgotten the humiliation she faced before the 2004 general elections when Naidu did not even like to have her on the dais of a massive TDP rally in Secunderabad, compelling her to sit with members of the audience. Thereafter, she disappeared from Andhra Pradesh politics, only to emerge in the Uttar Pradesh political arena with former general secretary of Samajwadi Party Amar Singh. Her subsequent rise in Uttar Pradesh politics is well known. During her successful campaign for the Rampur parliamentary seat in 2009, she had hit the election trail with the slogan “Andhra is my janambhoomi but Uttar Pradesh is my karmbhoomi (place of work).”
While speaking to the media at Tirupati, Jaya did not play her cards openly, but gave a hint of a comeback when she said that she was keen to campaign for good friend and actor Balakrishna, the son of the late N T Rama Rao, who has emerged as a power centre in the TDP. Speaking highly about Naidu, Jaya said. “Naidu is a good leader. He has skills to put the state again on the path of development.”
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