Hyderabad, Nov. 22: Posters and hoardings of a smiling evangelist are all over the city these days. Everywhere you turn, you can see Brother Anil Kumar. His face is on traffic islands, bus stops and wall posters, publicising a grand prayer meeting to be organised in Parade Grounds as part of Christmas celebrations.
Though most persons would be familiar with the ads by now, not everyone knows that Brother Anil Kumar is the son-in-law of the Chief Minister, Dr Y.S. Rajasekhar Reddy. After facing several lows in his life earlier, Mr Anil Kumar turned to a spiritual life and found fulfillment there. He is one prominent member of the Chief Minister’s family who stayed out of controversies since his father-in-law took over the reins of the state in 2004. But it is to be seen whether the publicity blitzkrieg for Brother Anil Kumar’s prayer meeting will attract the attention of the opposition Telugu Desam, which is pursuing the single point agenda of targeting the Chief Minister’s family.
Sometimes, this obsession has also made the TD stumble badly as it happened the other day when a group of leaders organised a dharna on a plot which the Kadapa Mayor, Mr Ravindranath Reddy, brother-in-law of Chief Minister, allegedly encroached upon. However, after conducting the dharna for some time that the TD leaders realised that they were agitating on the wrong piece of land.
The plot where they conducted the sit in belonged to someone else. The TD leaders then hurriedly shifted location to the land in question. It is to be seen whether the faux pas over the CM’s brother will persuade the TD to ignore the other "Brother" in the family.
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