25.8.08

Tirupati is where the action is



I got hell lot of assignments today and I cannot say how much I detested staying in office. I really want to catch all the action back home in Andhra Pradesh, leaving everything atleast for today. There is no way I can go there now, atleast I want to keep myself updated about the happenings through the internet. For people like me who were bored that not much interesting news is coming from Andhra Pradesh, it is now time to quench the thirst. The biggest news to come in as everyone knows is the Chiranjeevi’s party meeting at the temple town of Tirupati. How did the media respond to it? How other parties are responding to it? Whatz the action in the mega star’s party and how are the arrangements? What is the speech going to be?

Eenadu tried reporting everything as it is. I really liked it. It would be great if it follows this approach for everything. It did not go overboard or wrote badly about it. It stuck to the fundamentals of reporting. Andhra Jyothy like a megastar fan is really excited about the meeting. Though the front page appeared normal covering other major happenings as well, the inner pages is where all the information is. As always the headings were impacting and the actual information will be written in the article. It wrote “Chiru mania every where” and analysed how many people are coming from different regions of Andhra Pradesh. It reported that around ten lakh people are expected to come. Again there is a report below that says fifteen to twenty lakh people are expected to come. It also gave some insider information on how the preparations are going? “The Hindu” as always posted information that every body already knows and would be bored of reading except for people who want to improve their English writing skills. Sakshi also reported the same way as Eenadu did. It also added some spice by publishing an article that the people who worked hard for the setting up of the party are now forgotten.



There were lot of disparities in the reports. While some reported that hell lot of special trains, buses, Lorries, tractors and every type of conceivable vehicles are carrying hell lot of passengers to Tirupati and that the city is already jam packed with people and vehicles, there are some which reported that the special trains starting from Rajahmundry and Kakinada are going almost empty. As per the reports the arrangements for the meeting include large digital screens, vinyl displays, digital audio equipments, helicopters, a private event management company to manage them all. Hey, doesn’t this resemble some movie awards related arrangement. Pavan Kalyan is moving in the area of the meeting bare legged and wearing white robed clothes. He is going to listen to the mega speech sitting among lakhs of people. The problem is, he really wants to convey something through his actions, but I really could not get a clue what it is. Chiranjeevi’s one more brother is down with a 104 degrees fever. A swamiji advised Chiranjeevi to do some kind of penance to ease the god of snakes as a number of snakes were killed in the preparations for the meeting. Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD) arranged “Maha Laghu Darshanam” (the most hated of all kinds of darshanams available at the temple, where you would be having a telescopic view of the god for a split of a second) for the fans of Chiranjeevi visiting the temple at Tirumala. A CD named "Mega Prasthanam" is being sold and fans of Chiranjeevi queued up to buy their copy.

Congress party is trying hard to attract the attention of the BCs. It announced scholarships to some more castes belonging to the backward classes. It wants to win these elections by hook or crook and does not mind spending lot of money. Whatz the problem in that, the money is not coming from their pockets. It is coming from the people’s pockets and they are very good at claiming all they spent once they come back to power. A factory belonging to Chiru’s first daughter’s father-in-law is closed and its workers are now on the roads questioning Chiranjeevi to take care of family matters first before saying that he is pro-poor. The word is that TDP is behind their agitation. Communists want to tie up with Chiranjeevi if they like the Chiranjeevi party’s agenda. But how do they like Chiranjeevi looking for Lagnam, Varjyam, and Manchi Roju for everything?

That’s all for now, it seems my manager is calling. I got to give him the status of the assignments today. Catch you later probably in the live telecast of the meeting or sometime after that analysing it. Stay tuned.

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