Politics is like a musical chair game. Till the elections come the music goes. When the results come out, and verdict is declared the music stops for a while. The new mass leader takes the seat. Sooner or later, again the music starts. The next five years, the leaders, potential leaders and the aspiring leaders start the run in the fresh musical chair game.
Now we have HiFi Music in Andhra Pradesh along with plenty of noise as well. For the one CM gaddi, we are seeing more leaders going round the chair than ever before in history of Andhra Pradesh.
There is one leader still yet to arrive and join the game - the Mega Star. Even before this aspiring leader Chiranjeevi enters the scene and join the musical chair game, there is lot of bloodbath going behind. For the moment, no one appear to be more vulnerable than Nara Chandra Babu Naidu. He is under virtual attack from his own people. Everyone who is deserting him have got a story to tell about him. Chandra Babu Naidu is now considered a liability to the Telugu Desam Party.
This is the man, same Chandra Babu Naidu ruled the Andhra Pradesh state with Iron fist. During his term in the office, he was considered a king maker, visionary, progressive, competitive, advanced, tech savvy CM of his times. He globalised the state of Andhra Pradesh. He brought pride into the Telugu people. During his term in the office - at one point of time it was said the there was no future for Congress in the state. Babu himself went on record telling that he would rule the state like Jyoti Basu for about two decades. New papers around the world praised him, he moved with Bill Gates and Bill Clinton, attended Davos.
Since he went out of power, everything is turning against him. What went wrong?
To start with Chandra Babu Naidu appeared very impatient and did not wait till the YS Rajasekhar Reddy Government to have a grace run before attacking YSR and his government. Secondly, Andhra Jyothy and Eenadu news papers worked as catalysts (of course later they started buring their fingers and stated paying price). These papers proved more of a liability than any help for Babu. Finally, Chandra Babu Naidu never understood the power of his politcal enemy - Y S Rajasekhar Reddy. This costed him the most. In any game it is very important to understand the strength of enemy. If you fail in that assessment - you are lost.
Added to the above, his self image, inability to trust anyone, the history of back stabbing of his Father in Law NT Rama Rao, lack of political vision (he cannot go with Congress and BJP and his attempts for the third front is a disaster) have costed him lot
Well, it is not all doom and gloom for this former High Tech Chief Minister and CEO of Andhra Pradesh. Right now, there is lot of speculation in the politics. Many dissidents in all parties are - going against some thing that they did not like rather than going for something there want. No one knows what Chiranjeevi is up to. But already people are building big sand castles around the mega star. As we have seen with Davender Goud, who is suffering with a "altitude syndrome" having come up from No.2 to No.1 - we will see similar political uncertainities with all others who are leaving Telugu Desam Party.
"Time is the solution for all problems" is the probably the best advise Babu has to remember and keep focussing on the concerte plans he got for now. It is a time Babu also knows true colours of the people around him. It is also an opportunity to identify the talent with in the party. If he gives a clear message to the people in the state and keep focussed, Babu will come back. When that happens, he will be the most powererful person Andhra Pradesh would have seen ever.
Well, it is all in Nara Chandra Babu Naidu hands - to be a big winner or looser.
Nothing is impossible!
8th July 2008
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