Telugu vadi Athma Gauravam

[trent]

2 minutes ago, yomama said:

ida NTR mida edche pillal anta okati gurtu pettukondi desham lo telugu vadu ante adhamudu anattu unde days lo motham country leaders south ki vachi national front party meeting ki attend ayela chesindu NTR.

PVNR ni congress la oka mula kurcha pedte PM aye route clear chesina vadu NTR. Janalaki facts voddu , entertainment kavali, valla intlo cash dorkindi anta enni cinemalu chesindo enni paisal earn chesindo enni properties taxes katti konindo telvakunda vagutunaru ida

corruption chesina 5 cabinet sitting ministers ni over night suspend chesindu NTR, edi CBN ni cheymanu chuddam ipdu? party lo noti mida 10 mandi perlu cheptam corrupt mlas vi , suspend cheyagalada?  

alanti decisions teskoni common man ki manchi chestunadu ane kaksha tone kutralu panni 89 elections lo odipoyelaga chesindru. ilanti facts chepparu , odipoyindu kada anta, love da asal world ki telugu movies ni culture ni parichayam chesina great man NTR. anta name fame unna anni pakkana petti janala kosam ooru ooru tirigindu, iyala party petti congress loki dukina chiru laga kadu, okate party sache daka ani unadu! 

moddus ki no logics man, anthe valla edupu vallani edavanivvatame 

[Vaampire]

5 minutes ago, trent said:

Anna durai party pettindi 

Anna durai pettina party dmk.

Anna dmk was found by mgr

[Android_Halwa]

1983 political unstability in the state and central..political vaccum..

ade time la party petindu..gelchindu..

1989 la emaindi...antha thop thurum..lot of stories..dappu..mari enduku odipoindu vaya...sare..NTR nilabadda MLA seat ae kapadukolekapoindiki edo range anta..telugodu anta..mari..endo emo..

sare poni..MLA seat ae gelavaledu ante..local politics ani..caste ani..kathalu cheptaru...mari state antha odipoinanduku emi dappu kodtaru...

[Vaampire]

4 minutes ago, yomama said:

ida NTR mida edche pillal anta okati gurtu pettukondi desham lo telugu vadu ante adhamudu anattu unde days lo motham country leaders south ki vachi national front party meeting ki attend ayela chesindu NTR.

PVNR ni congress la oka mula kurcha pedte PM aye route clear chesina vadu NTR. Janalaki facts voddu , entertainment kavali, valla intlo cash dorkindi anta enni cinemalu chesindo enni paisal earn chesindo enni properties taxes katti konindo telvakunda vagutunaru ida

corruption chesina 5 cabinet sitting ministers ni over night suspend chesindu NTR, edi CBN ni cheymanu chuddam ipdu? party lo noti mida 10 mandi perlu cheptam corrupt mlas vi , suspend cheyagalada?  

alanti decisions teskoni common man ki manchi chestunadu ane kaksha tone kutralu panni 89 elections lo odipoyelaga chesindru. ilanti facts chepparu , odipoyindu kada anta, love da asal world ki telugu movies ni culture ni parichayam chesina great man NTR. anta name fame unna anni pakkana petti janala kosam ooru ooru tirigindu, iyala party petti congress loki dukina chiru laga kadu, okate party sache daka ani unadu! 

Pvnr ni kama rao pm chesada.  Lol

[yomama]

7 minutes ago, trent said:

NTR sonthamga party pettindu, MGR laga already vunna party loki dooki cm avaledu , desam lo anni partys ki deposits kuda rakapothe NTR TDP main opposition centre lo. yo chala vunnay le gani. MGR aath kuda paniki radu le gani. meru eddem ante teddem teddem ante eddem. meku me dora e correct. andhrollu dochukuntundru manalni antadu, meku solampathika ayyi votes guddutaru. 

chennai lo world telugu meeting pettindu NTR  janalaki brain washed knowledge ekuvindi kani actual facts takuvayay. Nen telugu vadi atma gauravam ante kamma vadi gauravam anta already mind oke la vellali ani fix ayte akkada water lede ante kuda alane potaru desert lo mirages ni follow ayi, same to same alane undi ida katha. Nak teliyani facts chala unay, chepte vintam. urke manam manam caste based godavalu padatam waste of time and energy.

But sambars ni matram encourage chesedi ledu ida, they got no loyalty what so ever!! 

[trent]

2 minutes ago, Idassamed said:

All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) (lit. All India Anna Dravidian Progress Federation) is an Indian political party in the states of Tamil Nadu and Puducherry. It is currently in power in Tamil Nadu and is the third largest party in the Indian Parliament. It is a Dravidian party and was founded by M. G. Ramachandran (popularly known as MGR) on 17 October 1972 as a breakaway faction of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK). From 1989 to 2016, AIADMK was led by Late J. Jayalalithaa, who served as the Ex. Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu on several occasions. Coalitions headed by the party have won the elections to the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly seven times, making it the most successful political outfit in the state's history. The party headquarters is located in Royapettah, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, which was donated to the party in 1986 by Janaki Ramachandran, MGR's wife.

1965 lo dravida party pettindu annadurai, e AIADMK dravida party nunchi vachina oka chilika 

[Idassamed]

Just now, trent said:

1965 lo dravida party pettindu annadurai, e AIADMK dravida party nunchi vachina oka chilika 

 

[KABALI]

34 minutes ago, Android_Halwa said:

evaru bhai telugodu ante ? telugu basha ante istam vunnolla...telugu thapa ae basha ranolla...telugu ae thopu thurumu ani feel ayyetolla..telugu thapa ae basha ardam kani matladarani valla ?

evadu padithe vaadu telugu antadu....

urdu matladetollu haulegalla emanna...non telugu matlade citizens in AP and TG chootey badcows uh ? telugu matladetodu okkade sakkamainoda emana ? 

okate dappu..vori nayana kotti kotti dappu palgipotadi kani kottu matram bandh kaadu..

Abbaaaa....nuvvu evariki putinav babu telugonikaaa...leka Verey state odiki...NTR gurunchi pakkana pedathaamm..

Nuvvu ey state odivi raaa ...ikkada Telangana or Andhra lo settle ayinaavaa....maa daggara untu maa neelu taaguthu maa Basha meedha edusthuvendhi...

Atla ayithey mee Tamil ollu Marathi ollu cheseydhi endhi...

Neelaantodu maathram Telugu godiki gaa undakoodadhu....

Assembly lo Urdu maatlaadey valley gaavaale manaku..Tamilnadu and Maharashtra etc daggara kooda Muslims untaaru kaani andaru local languages loney maatladathaaru...

Manam atla kaadhu..Assembly lo kooda Telugu Bashaa maatladaru...

Neee lanti Ded dimaakh gaallu....ikkada maatladam kaadhu..enduku puttinav raa bhai nuvvu...

[yomama]

@Android_Halwamr halwa raj this article answers every single question you mockingly pressed here.

It is only appropriate to remember NT Rama Rao, popularly called NTR by the people of both Andhra Pradesh and Telangana in the season of Congress decimation. From somewhere in the heavens, he must be smiling at the discomfort of all Congressmen.

 

Post emergency and JP’s movement, it was NTR who delivered a crushing defeat to the rising stature of Indira Gandhi. And all in the name of ‘Aaru Kotla Andhrula Aatma Gauravam’ – means the ‘Self Respect of Six Crore Telugu People’ that was used even after two decades by the current Prime Minister, when he won elections repeatedly in Gujarat by invoking the ‘Gujarati Asmita’.

The political journey of NTR, from being an artist who helped Congress Governments to raise funds during natural calamities (unfortunately the coast of Andhra experiences two cyclones a year on an average) to the man who put together a coalition against the Bofors tainted Rajiv Gandhi that included BJP and Communists as well, it was an eventful one.

 

And all started, as usual by the arrogance of the father of current uncrowned prince of Congress. In fact, it was Congress that wanted NTR in its fold. And Congress was ruling Andhra at that time. The resurgent Congress after the Janata experiment had gone haywire had its centre in Andhra. Indira Gandhi chose to retain Medak and give up Rae Bareli to Arun Nehru. In strict sense, she was the first Prime Minister from Andhra Pradesh, from 1980 to 1984. Virtually there was no opposition. Bored without any major external problems, she created few internal ones like the Punjab problem and was playing the political chess – by replacing chief ministers at her whims and fancies.

One unfortunate day, Rajiv Gandhi, then a political novice but a general secretary of Congress choose to visit Hyderabad. Anjaiah, the then CM of AP, in true spirit of the chamcha culture of Congress went to the airport to receive the then Yuvaraj. Instead of smiling benevolently, Rajiv shouted at the CM, who could barely understand English, publicly. It was reported in the local media and subsequent to the public humiliation, Anjaiah was removed from the post. Records say there were four chief ministers to the state between 1978 to 1982.

Smarting from the condition of leaders in Congress, NTR, who never tolerates unnecessary comments choose to enter the political arena – on his own. His one point agenda – ‘Self Respect of Telugu People’. It is a wonder, in the first state that was created based on Language, after nearly three decades of Congress rule, there was a call for ‘self-respect’. One can understand the way Congress ruled states then.

Congressmen launched a vitriolic campaign against NTR calling him names. Some simply scoffed off at him, saying politics is not ‘acting’, as if they were not acting. NTR, who was born into a farmer family and struggled hard to become the superstar of Telugu movies, know how to fight. And, his innovative ways of electioneering had changed the way elections have fought in India.

After delivering four super hit movies in which he played the role of angry young man, military officer who rebels against the corruption, a justice (Justice Chowdhary was remade in Hindi also), a police officer was ready to work hard. Really hard – he converted a Chevrolet van into his home on wheels for the next nine months and named it ‘Chaitanya Rath’, the first rath of Indian politics, only to be repeated by Advani almost a decade later.

With his son Harikrishna as driver, NTR took to roads and travelled every single major village in the state. Crisscrossing the state, the father-son duo covered nearly 40,000 kilometres in their campaign.

NTR used to deliver speeches from the top of the van. He was the first one who started eating with general public, in the village where he stayed for lunch, breakfast and dinner (In fact, I saw him for the only time as a boy of thirteen when he was having his breakfast in Podili. We were privileged because my mother works in the Court and wife of the magistrate was a fan of NTR, so we went along with the magistrate).

Being an actor helped him in gauging the public mood and pulse. He knew what works with general public. The image of mythological characters he played – Rama & Krishna to the perfection (he was popular for these characters even in Tamil movies), he was almost a divine figure. Dressed in Khakis, his bright skin darkened by the continuous exposure to the sun during the hard and gruelling travel, he delivered speeches touching various topics that are relevant to the common man, in a voice only he can talk.

He used to bath road side from the water being pumped by some villager. He was supported by the Telugu newspaper – “Eenadu”, which later grew into a media giant ‘E-TV’. Reporters of Eenadu, the largest circulated daily of AP covered the political campaign with full vigour. The photos of Rama Rao bathing road side would appear the next day on front page. When Rama Rao played with the kids of villages in the evening, it became attraction on the next day’s paper.

He was the first one, who openly criticised the dynasty politics of Congress. He questioned the slavish mentality of the then Congressmen and compared them with the mighty Congressmen ‘Tanguturi Prakasam Pantulu’, the man who opened his shirt and showed his chest to the British Police and the Simon to back, way back in 1927 in Madras. There were no answers from the Congressmen. In line with the systematic destruction, Indira Gandhi ensured there were no leaders in the party.

While he was on the travel, NTR used to have small conferences in all the places and choose his candidates. When the elections were conducted nine months later, his party won 199 seats out of 294 and he became the first non-congress chief minister of the state.

[Truly, I feel funny when the current main stream media calls Arvind Kejriwal great for defeating Sheila Dixit after one year. First, Kejriwal grew on the stature of Anna Hazare only to dump him later, after his own name was established. Second, Delhi is no Andhra Pradesh. Frankly, elections to Municipal Corporation of Delhi are also equally hard or easy when compared with the Delhi state.

Third, in the current days of live TV and social media reaching public is billion times easier than in the good old days, when NTR had to rely on a newspaper that is delivered on the next day. And of course, All India Radio used to sing praises about the party in power at Centre. Calling Kejriwal’s win a historical only exhibits any columnist’s lack of knowledge of how elections were fought in all Indian states.]

NTR provided the first educated government to Andhra Pradesh. Himself a graduate, he was probably the least educated one in his cabinet. For the first time, a Doctor was the minister for Health and a Lawyer was having the Law portfolio. Engineers were in-charge of Industries and Irrigation. The much adapted ‘Single Window’ system was introduced by NTR. Even today, the best government run transport corporation in the country is being run in the states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. {Had he been alive, I am sure, never Telangana people would have asked for a separate state, for the current CM of Telangana joined Telugu Desam, the party of NTR three decades back.}

Almost not known to most of India, in Hyderabad like monsoons, communal riots were also seasonal in pre-NTR era. For the first time he let the police to do their job and they did it better. As long as he was in power, there were no communal riots. Even MLAs of Congress and Majlis were simply locked up and no amount of political interference could ensure their release. Even the Naxalites used to sing paeans to NTR.

When he went to USA to get his heart operated upon, Congress, true to its wicked politics lured the second man of NTR’s cabinet, who was left in-charge of the state by NTR himself to split the party and made him CM. That exhibited the despair and limitations of the think tank of Congress. [I really laugh when Rahul and his team talk about democracy!]. The Congress Governor Ramlal did not consider the majority of MLAs paraded in the streets of Hyderabad, supporting NTR. NTR, on his return from operation did what was known to him.

The ‘Chaitanya Rath’ was serviced and he took to streets and started touring – with bandages on his body. All opposition parties supported him from DMK to NC and BJP to the Left. Indira Gandhi was forced to remove Ramlal. A month later Indira Gandhi was assassinated and riding on the sympathy wave, Rajiv Gandhi became Prime Minister, with a landslide victory. His only hindrance in the Lok Sabha was TDP, with 36 MPs. It was first time in the history of India when a regional party acted as the main opposition party. Contrary to the arguments of Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi two years back, Rajiv Gandhi didn’t grant the leader of opposition post to Yerram Naidu, leader of TDP MPs in Lok Sabha..

As if to challenge Rajiv Gandhi, NTR dissolved the state assembly only to win 202 seats out of 250 contested seats.

Meanwhile, NTR started the first state level entrance examination for admission into engineering and medical colleges, raising the standard of education in the state. This, apart from his favourite project “Telugu Ganga” to provide water from the river Krishna to the parched lands of southern Andhra had seen his image increasing. In fact, when Chandrababu Naidu inaugurated the link between the Godavari and Krishna, he was only doing poetic justice to the dreams long cherished by NT Rama Rao.

The city of Hyderabad that resembled a ghetto in Pakistan in bad old Congress days was developed into a proper metropolis during his tenure, which later was developed by Chandrababu Naidu into a mega city. He started to build very big bus stands in all towns and cities with an idea of accommodating all government offices in one complex so that common man’s torture of moving from one to the other could be eliminated. Though all towns in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana now boast of bigger bus stands and probably the best state run transport corporation, his final objective is yet to be achieved.

Failed in containing the ever growing popularity of NTR, Rajiv Gandhi used the most trusted weapons of the Congress – the Governor. NTR had to deal with four governors during his tenure from 1982 to 89, of which he had to endure Kumudben Joshi for almost five years.

The souring relations between NTR and Kumudben Joshi were as acrimonious as the relations between India and Pakistan. Ms Joshi converted the Rajbhavan into the state congress head office and did her best to trouble the most popular chief minister of the state.

When someone like Manish Tewari and Abhishek Manu Singhvi start lecturing on the role of Governors and the powers of chief ministers, it appears they have not read the acts and deeds of congress governors in the past.

When Rajiv Gandhi was under siege for the Bofors issue, NTR rose to the national frame and ensured all political parties came on to the board to oppose the then congress government. When the National Front was created, he was the Chairman with VP Singh as its convenor. However, through his eccentric behaviour, though natural for any artist he failed to cope with the continuously increasing onslaught of congress wicked scheme of things and lost the elections in 1989.

 

But, by that time, he created a permanent impression in the minds of Telugu people. His act of vacating one of his party seats so that PV Narasimha Rao could contest and elect to Loksabha with a record margin was a good retort to the Congress that wanted to have PVNR elected to Rajya Sabha. In a way, NTR boosted the very much needed confidence of PVNR during the initial days of his prime minister-ship.

Whenever someone talks these days about the ‘Congress Mukt Bharat’, I am sure the soul of NTR is smiling from the good heavens, wishing the same.

 

[KABALI]

37 minutes ago, Android_Halwa said:

sambar cousin brothers andhrollu....vallemo tamil gouravam ante..ida oka mahanetha telugu aatma gouravam anadu....inka kondaru adente endo kuda teluvakunda gouravam gouravam ani dappu koduturru...

koniyamante cheppu, kothadi konistha...dappu...poddugala lechi kotukovachu...100% plagiarism...MGR election manifesto okasari chudu, telustadi...mazaak mazaak la maki kirkiri chesindu NTR ani public ni

adhey adhey...evadaina...vaadi family gurunchi vaadi satte gurunchi vaadi jaathi gurunchi alochisthaaru...

nuvvu theda gaadivi kadha...Telugus gurunchi and self respect gurunchi maatladathuntey....Castes gurunchi maatladuthunaav...telangana antaav Andhra antaav...

katchitanga nuvvvu caste fanatic outside...or from a different state than telugus.and oka caste meedha hatredness tho nee isitam vachi natlu maatladuthunaav....antha kula gajji avasaram ledhu...

nuvvu verey state odivi ayithey mee LIMAAT gaallu Jalli Kattu hadaavidi edho chesthunaaru kadha....poyi aa Dunnapothulani clean chesuko...LIMAT Maadhrachod...

Nee Jaathi frrokula naa MXXXX.....

endhi nuvvu maatlaadithey....Telugu gurunchi maatladuthuntey states antaav...castes antaav...

[yomama]

38 minutes ago, Android_Halwa said:

evaru bhai telugodu ante ? telugu basha ante istam vunnolla...telugu thapa ae basha ranolla...telugu ae thopu thurumu ani feel ayyetolla..telugu thapa ae basha ardam kani matladarani valla ?

evadu padithe vaadu telugu antadu....

urdu matladetollu haulegalla emanna...non telugu matlade citizens in AP and TG chootey badcows uh ? telugu matladetodu okkade sakkamainoda emana ? 

okate dappu..vori nayana kotti kotti dappu palgipotadi kani kottu matram bandh kaadu..

urdu was enforced on indians by islamic rulers as a slave language!! If you dont know the history like i said, yesterday you mouthed off saying "our nawabs were rich" while completely pushing rajakars and zagirdars under the rug!! 

either nek telugollu ante padadu or tamil vadivi avadam valla inka aa daridrapu buddi use chestunav, as i said migatha ids to ra , ne style lone replies vastay

[yomama]

1 minute ago, KABALI said:

adhey adhey...evadaina...vaadi family gurunchi vaadi satte gurunchi vaadi jaathi gurunchi alochisthaaru...

nuvvu theda gaadivi kadha...Telugus gurunchi and self respect gurunchi maatladathuntey....Castes gurunchi maatladuthunaav...telangana antaav Andhra antaav...

katchitanga nuvvvu caste fanatic outside....and oka caste meedha hatredness tho nee sitam vachi natlu maatladuthunaav....antha kula gajji avasaram ledhu...

nuvvu verey state odivi ayithey mee LIMAAT gaallu AJlli Kattu hadaavidi edho chesthunaaru kadha....poyi aa Dunnapothulani clean chesuko...LIMAT Maadhrachod...

Nee Jaathi frrokula naa MXXXX.....

endhi nuvvu maatlaadithey....Telugu gurunchi maatladuthuntey states antaav...castes antaav...

 cool man , sambar gadu 10 ids lo vachi vadito vadu argue cheskuntadle , he has this ongoing mental problem. Let him be

[KABALI]

37 minutes ago, Vaampire said:

Eedu eedi erriii pooo politics. 

Congi ni varasatva rajakeeyalu ani thittadu. Malli eedi okkasari nbk ni inko sari nhk ni rajakeeya varasulu ga announce chesadu. Adhi eedi character.

 

Sahayam cheyyadaniki vachina anucharudi kapuranni kulchi aadi wife ni pelli chesukunna mahanubavudu.

Inka discipline antara nhk ki illicit relationships unnayo. Adhi eedi pempakam.  

 

Congress thopu mari...LK gaadu Rajiv Gandhi oka CM ni Pattukoni airport lo kottindu ...githey ey TN lono...Maharasthra lonu setyamanu sooodhaam....

Congress 33 MP's ichina - dhaanlto major contribution chesina ANDHRA state ki em chesindhi....Closed doors lo bill pass chesindhi...without capital, funds,, nothing...

Idhi ey country lo ekkada jaragadhu....inkaa siggu eggu lekunda congress endhi vaay....

TN lo oka Janthuvula poti ki central level ichey importance oka state ni divide cheseytappuddu ivvaleka poyindhi congress...

Mana laaga castes gurunchi orrikiney kottukuntaam kaabattey...TELUGUS ila ayaaru....

[trent]

8 minutes ago, yomama said:

@Android_Halwamr halwa raj this article answers every single question you mockingly pressed here.

It is only appropriate to remember NT Rama Rao, popularly called NTR by the people of both Andhra Pradesh and Telangana in the season of Congress decimation. From somewhere in the heavens, he must be smiling at the discomfort of all Congressmen.

 

Post emergency and JP’s movement, it was NTR who delivered a crushing defeat to the rising stature of Indira Gandhi. And all in the name of ‘Aaru Kotla Andhrula Aatma Gauravam’ – means the ‘Self Respect of Six Crore Telugu People’ that was used even after two decades by the current Prime Minister, when he won elections repeatedly in Gujarat by invoking the ‘Gujarati Asmita’.

The political journey of NTR, from being an artist who helped Congress Governments to raise funds during natural calamities (unfortunately the coast of Andhra experiences two cyclones a year on an average) to the man who put together a coalition against the Bofors tainted Rajiv Gandhi that included BJP and Communists as well, it was an eventful one.

 

And all started, as usual by the arrogance of the father of current uncrowned prince of Congress. In fact, it was Congress that wanted NTR in its fold. And Congress was ruling Andhra at that time. The resurgent Congress after the Janata experiment had gone haywire had its centre in Andhra. Indira Gandhi chose to retain Medak and give up Rae Bareli to Arun Nehru. In strict sense, she was the first Prime Minister from Andhra Pradesh, from 1980 to 1984. Virtually there was no opposition. Bored without any major external problems, she created few internal ones like the Punjab problem and was playing the political chess – by replacing chief ministers at her whims and fancies.

One unfortunate day, Rajiv Gandhi, then a political novice but a general secretary of Congress choose to visit Hyderabad. Anjaiah, the then CM of AP, in true spirit of the chamcha culture of Congress went to the airport to receive the then Yuvaraj. Instead of smiling benevolently, Rajiv shouted at the CM, who could barely understand English, publicly. It was reported in the local media and subsequent to the public humiliation, Anjaiah was removed from the post. Records say there were four chief ministers to the state between 1978 to 1982.

Smarting from the condition of leaders in Congress, NTR, who never tolerates unnecessary comments choose to enter the political arena – on his own. His one point agenda – ‘Self Respect of Telugu People’. It is a wonder, in the first state that was created based on Language, after nearly three decades of Congress rule, there was a call for ‘self-respect’. One can understand the way Congress ruled states then.

Congressmen launched a vitriolic campaign against NTR calling him names. Some simply scoffed off at him, saying politics is not ‘acting’, as if they were not acting. NTR, who was born into a farmer family and struggled hard to become the superstar of Telugu movies, know how to fight. And, his innovative ways of electioneering had changed the way elections have fought in India.

After delivering four super hit movies in which he played the role of angry young man, military officer who rebels against the corruption, a justice (Justice Chowdhary was remade in Hindi also), a police officer was ready to work hard. Really hard – he converted a Chevrolet van into his home on wheels for the next nine months and named it ‘Chaitanya Rath’, the first rath of Indian politics, only to be repeated by Advani almost a decade later.

With his son Harikrishna as driver, NTR took to roads and travelled every single major village in the state. Crisscrossing the state, the father-son duo covered nearly 40,000 kilometres in their campaign.

NTR used to deliver speeches from the top of the van. He was the first one who started eating with general public, in the village where he stayed for lunch, breakfast and dinner (In fact, I saw him for the only time as a boy of thirteen when he was having his breakfast in Podili. We were privileged because my mother works in the Court and wife of the magistrate was a fan of NTR, so we went along with the magistrate).

Being an actor helped him in gauging the public mood and pulse. He knew what works with general public. The image of mythological characters he played – Rama & Krishna to the perfection (he was popular for these characters even in Tamil movies), he was almost a divine figure. Dressed in Khakis, his bright skin darkened by the continuous exposure to the sun during the hard and gruelling travel, he delivered speeches touching various topics that are relevant to the common man, in a voice only he can talk.

He used to bath road side from the water being pumped by some villager. He was supported by the Telugu newspaper – “Eenadu”, which later grew into a media giant ‘E-TV’. Reporters of Eenadu, the largest circulated daily of AP covered the political campaign with full vigour. The photos of Rama Rao bathing road side would appear the next day on front page. When Rama Rao played with the kids of villages in the evening, it became attraction on the next day’s paper.

He was the first one, who openly criticised the dynasty politics of Congress. He questioned the slavish mentality of the then Congressmen and compared them with the mighty Congressmen ‘Tanguturi Prakasam Pantulu’, the man who opened his shirt and showed his chest to the British Police and the Simon to back, way back in 1927 in Madras. There were no answers from the Congressmen. In line with the systematic destruction, Indira Gandhi ensured there were no leaders in the party.

While he was on the travel, NTR used to have small conferences in all the places and choose his candidates. When the elections were conducted nine months later, his party won 199 seats out of 294 and he became the first non-congress chief minister of the state.

[Truly, I feel funny when the current main stream media calls Arvind Kejriwal great for defeating Sheila Dixit after one year. First, Kejriwal grew on the stature of Anna Hazare only to dump him later, after his own name was established. Second, Delhi is no Andhra Pradesh. Frankly, elections to Municipal Corporation of Delhi are also equally hard or easy when compared with the Delhi state.

Third, in the current days of live TV and social media reaching public is billion times easier than in the good old days, when NTR had to rely on a newspaper that is delivered on the next day. And of course, All India Radio used to sing praises about the party in power at Centre. Calling Kejriwal’s win a historical only exhibits any columnist’s lack of knowledge of how elections were fought in all Indian states.]

NTR provided the first educated government to Andhra Pradesh. Himself a graduate, he was probably the least educated one in his cabinet. For the first time, a Doctor was the minister for Health and a Lawyer was having the Law portfolio. Engineers were in-charge of Industries and Irrigation. The much adapted ‘Single Window’ system was introduced by NTR. Even today, the best government run transport corporation in the country is being run in the states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. {Had he been alive, I am sure, never Telangana people would have asked for a separate state, for the current CM of Telangana joined Telugu Desam, the party of NTR three decades back.}

Almost not known to most of India, in Hyderabad like monsoons, communal riots were also seasonal in pre-NTR era. For the first time he let the police to do their job and they did it better. As long as he was in power, there were no communal riots. Even MLAs of Congress and Majlis were simply locked up and no amount of political interference could ensure their release. Even the Naxalites used to sing paeans to NTR.

When he went to USA to get his heart operated upon, Congress, true to its wicked politics lured the second man of NTR’s cabinet, who was left in-charge of the state by NTR himself to split the party and made him CM. That exhibited the despair and limitations of the think tank of Congress. [I really laugh when Rahul and his team talk about democracy!]. The Congress Governor Ramlal did not consider the majority of MLAs paraded in the streets of Hyderabad, supporting NTR. NTR, on his return from operation did what was known to him.

The ‘Chaitanya Rath’ was serviced and he took to streets and started touring – with bandages on his body. All opposition parties supported him from DMK to NC and BJP to the Left. Indira Gandhi was forced to remove Ramlal. A month later Indira Gandhi was assassinated and riding on the sympathy wave, Rajiv Gandhi became Prime Minister, with a landslide victory. His only hindrance in the Lok Sabha was TDP, with 36 MPs. It was first time in the history of India when a regional party acted as the main opposition party. Contrary to the arguments of Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi two years back, Rajiv Gandhi didn’t grant the leader of opposition post to Yerram Naidu, leader of TDP MPs in Lok Sabha..

As if to challenge Rajiv Gandhi, NTR dissolved the state assembly only to win 202 seats out of 250 contested seats.

Meanwhile, NTR started the first state level entrance examination for admission into engineering and medical colleges, raising the standard of education in the state. This, apart from his favourite project “Telugu Ganga” to provide water from the river Krishna to the parched lands of southern Andhra had seen his image increasing. In fact, when Chandrababu Naidu inaugurated the link between the Godavari and Krishna, he was only doing poetic justice to the dreams long cherished by NT Rama Rao.

The city of Hyderabad that resembled a ghetto in Pakistan in bad old Congress days was developed into a proper metropolis during his tenure, which later was developed by Chandrababu Naidu into a mega city. He started to build very big bus stands in all towns and cities with an idea of accommodating all government offices in one complex so that common man’s torture of moving from one to the other could be eliminated. Though all towns in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana now boast of bigger bus stands and probably the best state run transport corporation, his final objective is yet to be achieved.

Failed in containing the ever growing popularity of NTR, Rajiv Gandhi used the most trusted weapons of the Congress – the Governor. NTR had to deal with four governors during his tenure from 1982 to 89, of which he had to endure Kumudben Joshi for almost five years.

The souring relations between NTR and Kumudben Joshi were as acrimonious as the relations between India and Pakistan. Ms Joshi converted the Rajbhavan into the state congress head office and did her best to trouble the most popular chief minister of the state.

When someone like Manish Tewari and Abhishek Manu Singhvi start lecturing on the role of Governors and the powers of chief ministers, it appears they have not read the acts and deeds of congress governors in the past.

When Rajiv Gandhi was under siege for the Bofors issue, NTR rose to the national frame and ensured all political parties came on to the board to oppose the then congress government. When the National Front was created, he was the Chairman with VP Singh as its convenor. However, through his eccentric behaviour, though natural for any artist he failed to cope with the continuously increasing onslaught of congress wicked scheme of things and lost the elections in 1989.

 

But, by that time, he created a permanent impression in the minds of Telugu people. His act of vacating one of his party seats so that PV Narasimha Rao could contest and elect to Loksabha with a record margin was a good retort to the Congress that wanted to have PVNR elected to Rajya Sabha. In a way, NTR boosted the very much needed confidence of PVNR during the initial days of his prime minister-ship.

Whenever someone talks these days about the ‘Congress Mukt Bharat’, I am sure the soul of NTR is smiling from the good heavens, wishing the same.

 

twaralone "TRS mukt Hyd " ani talks vastay  

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1 minute ago, KABALI said:

Congress thopu mari...LK gaadu Rajiv Gandhi oka CM ni Pattukoni sirport lo kottindu ...githey ey TN lono...Maharasthra lonu setyamanu sooodhaam....

Congress 33 MP's ichina - dhaanlto major contribution chesina...ANDHRA state ki em chesindhi....Closed doors lo bill pass chesindhi...without capital, funds,, nothing...

Idhi ey country lo ekkada jaragadhu....inkaa siggu eggu lekunda congress endhi vaay....

TN lo oka Janthuvula poti ki central level ichey importance oka state ni divide cheseytappuddu ivvaleka poyindhi congress...

Mana laaga castes gurunchi orrikiney kottukuntaam kaabattey...TELUGUS ila ayaaru....

 e matter nen convey cheyali ani e post esina, unfortunately it took a U turn!