Launch of Chiranjeevi Party: Politics of India, Jumpers, Part 2-Is there really a need?

Megastar Chiranjeevi aka Konidela Siva Shankara Vara Prasad.

The name does not require an intro to the people of Andhra Pradesh. Almost 150 films to his credit. 30 years of experience in the filmy world. Many awards, laurels and millions of fans following, blood banks, eye banks, lots of social activities. A demi-god he is. As a person, he is very humble, sensitive and very human. I love all this about him.

But I am shocked about his entry into politics. Politics of course itself means a very negative tone in India. But it is really not so negative. A negative image has been created and born just beacuse of the way those politicians behave and their works and idiotic plots. Morality is a word which can never be found in the politicians.

Back to Chiranjeevi, he has taken a decision to launch a political party. Right now there are almost 45 parties representing in Andhra Pradesh(inclusive of the national parties like Congress , BJP etc) . Refer the link for the complete list of the political parties with the symbols allocated.

http://www.apsec.gov.in:8080/apsec/polilitcalpartindex.htm
(The site may be unavailable sometimes)

The list given does not include the would-be launching Chiranjeevi party, Nava Telangana Party by Devender Gowd, TRS(N) by Narendra. Close to a half century mark.

With so many parties floating around, can we just expect how a better government can be formed and they governing the state( applies to the entire nation also). A decision to be taken by the government requires the bill to be passed in the State Legislative Assembly, with so many "idealogies" around, how can a bill be passed so easily. Clearly it is a simple logic that no political party wins the clean majority so easily, to form a governement of its own with out the support of the other political parties. Simplifying, with so many parties around, can a non-hung government be formed easily?

Just at this moment, Chiranjeevi is ready to foray into state politics and form a government (assumptions going on as of now). The motive and principles on which he is planning to launch the party will be good, no queries about that. But if we just look into the current movements of the political 'leaders' from other parties, they are ready to jump into this particular party. The tag line of the Chiru party is, people are looking for a change and waiting for the right governance and Chiranjeevi is the answer. With all these jumpers around from the other parties into this party, where is the real change? It reminds me of a moral story(click to read it) which i read and heard as a child. Those people who are ready to join hands with Chiranjeevi are all the greedy and it is a very open secret. They are expecting, if the party goes on to form government, they can have some good posts. Can we imagine any other single motive? If they are really concerned about working for people, doing some good to the society, they can do it now any how. But what is the need to change the party? What sort of signal do they want to give to the people? Let us take some people who have openly expressed the desire to join Chiru party. HariRamaJogaiah (Congress), Kotagiri Vidyadhara Rao(TDP), Bhuma Nagi Reddy(TDP) etc..many more to jump. I dont criticise them or oppose them, but as a neutral thought, I discuss. Jogaiah can easily serve people, as his party is in power now. He can bring pressure on government and do the good works to society. The other two leaders were respresenting a party which was in power for over nine years. The differences with in their political outfits forced them to leave their parties and join the Chiru party and clearly the motive of serving the people is left behind.

So a clear picture is visible here. The real intentions of Mr.Chiru are (may be) very good. But we welcome him, if he comes out with new faces and new leaders, real leaders, who are interested to serve the people with honesty and sincerity, else it would be a mere waste. More over, if his party people get corrupted( 99% probability is there), all the good name he has earned for the past 30 years(as a celebrity and a legend) will be ufff, gone. He can serve people and fight legally if required with his associations of organizations instead of a political party. Because an organization tends to be a more neutral platform to fight the corruption or bad governance.

Please think over it Megastar!

Once again, our Jumpers did a good job, shame shame...

PS: Personally I am a fan of Mr.Pawan Kalyan, the Power Star.

Politics of India Part 1: JUMPERS, need or greed?

Any where is possible. A guy who has some extra-ordinary powers in his DNA, teleporting they call it, can go to any place he wishes. Sees a picture of Pyramids, the next moment he is found sitting on the apex of those giant constructions enjoying his pint of beer. Oops, I better get into what I wanted to write not the review of the Hollywood movie JUMPER released earlier this year.

That was a film,but dont u think we can find JUMPERs in our very society?? Sure, we can. Politicians are the main people I am talking about.

Jumpers have been from ages. Every great kingdom had them. More of them were left out as backstabbers. For years together they stay with a person or a group or some ideology and jump out or part-away with some reasons. Not all reasons have sense. These jumpers try to show that there is a need why they jump, I am afraid, in most of the cases greed is the key. Yes, differences do arise, most of which can be fixed. But parting ways has always been the preference.

Recent moves of some politicians in Andhra Pradesh made me to write this. The names have not been mentioned but can be well understood who are from AP.

A prominent leader from the current opposition party of AP is the latest of our jumpers. He is said to be the number 2 , has been in the party for over 25 years, serving the party and people with various posts. But the consequences of his jumping should be thought of for a moment. I am bothered not about the party he quit or party he is going to join or party he is going to float, my concern is about the resignation from his post of MLA. Does not it lead to a bye-election again? Who is going to bear the election costs? The public. This gentleman has left his party with a demand; a demand which has been 'patented' by some other political party: separate Telangana State. Moreover, he is not interested to join hands with that party who are demanding the separate state from few years. But if he really wants to go on with his demand, cant he join that party and pressurize the government? Here is where the need n greed come into scene. It is left to who ever is reading this decide what his actual intention is.

There is one more political party formed demanding a seperate state of Telangana, out of AP. What is the need to split the state? They say that the other people of the state are exploiting them. Can any one please tell me what exactly has been exploited from them? When every resource is there in most parts of Telangana, isnt it their responsibility to use them? Every now and then, they come out with slogans demanding the separation of state and resigning from their posts. Was there really any need to resign? They could have chosen many ways to protest and get their demands done.

Most of those leaders in the party are those jumpers from other parties. The very founder of the seperate Telangana party himself was a jumper from a major local party. Adding more to this, the current head of that major local party was also a jumper from a national party.

Jump from one party to the other, resign from the post of MLA or MP. It is no more a child's play. I think a resolution should be made by the Govt of India and amended into the constitution to curb all these jumpers. Under any circumstances except death, a MLA or MP should not resign from the post which requires an election to replace him/her or change his party. Any person breaching this, disqualifies him/her or a related family member from contesting the bye-elections for the whole term and also there would be no candidate in the constituency for the party the person has resigned from or joined into, till the next general elections.

This is never really going to happen unless the Supreme Court intervenes and does some thing to save the country. May be as citizens of India, we can do some thing to alert the supreme body. Just think about it!


* I am writing this not as a spokesperson or an activist or a representative of any political party, even though I am a sympathizer for some party of my individual choice.