Hyderabad, March 22: The Chief Minister, Dr Y.S. Rajasekhar Reddy, has overtaken his bete noire, the Telugu Desam president, Mr N. Chandrababu Naidu, in the “hi-tech race” this general elections to woo voters.
Dr Reddy on Sunday took to weblogging with his maiden “penpricks” recalling the famous visit of Mahatma Gandhi to South Africa, taking potshots at the Opposition and exuding confidence that the Congress will win the “gold medal” in the Assembly and Lok Sabha elections.
“Mr Naidu bends to every wind,” Dr Reddy said in his first-ever political comment in his blog. He said the TD chief believes that pursuit of power is the only purpose of politics, that any somersault is fair in an election, that all policies are usable and throwable. “Even my critics will acknowledge that I have done no somersaults during my time in politics”.
This is one electoral score Dr Reddy made over Mr Naidu, since the latter is known for his hi-tech publicity stunts. Though the TD supremo introduced online radio and TV webcasting important news and political events for the benefit of Telugu NRIs, Dr Reddy took him by surprise by launching his own blog.
“Yes We Will,” proclaims the YSR’s blog, apparently as an answer to the “change” theme being talked by actor-turned-politician Chiranjeevi. No political party president in the state has his own blog, though party activists have set up websites supporting their leaders.
The MIM president, Mr Asaduddin Owaisi, is using facebook to spread his views. Dr Reddy is the first seniormost politician to ever launch a blog.
Incidentally, Dr Reddy’s son and the Congress candidate from Kadapa LS seat, Mr Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy, and Mr Chandrababu Naidu’s son, Mr Lokesh Naidu, too maintain their own blogs.
“Mine is a simple vision: make power, water, food and education affordable, and you put money in the pockets of the poor. When the poor have money, they will do wonders for society. They will send their children to school, they will treat their daughters better and they will look after their health. They will take up small enterprise and invest the surplus in the things they need most. A million small enterprises will provide work to a million jobless people. It is not only rich men who can create jobs, small entrepreneurs can create infinitely many more,” writes Dr Reddy.
The TD manages as many as a dozen websites, but none of them is devoted exclusively for general elections.
Mr Naidu has a personal website and it can be accessed through a hyperlink from the Telugu Desam’s website
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