Recent statement by YSRCP chief Jagan about renaming Krishna district as NTR district has drawn lot of ire from some leaders of YSRCP as well as some supporters of YSRCP party. People thought it might have been an impulsive statement from Jagan but later Lakshmi Parvathi and some other leaders clarified that it is not an impulsive statement but it is a strategic decision from the party and it has been discussed within the party before the announcement. This statement of Lakshmi Parvathi surprised many whether YSRCP strategist are not able to gauge the public response for this decision or are they bankrupt with ideas.
Renaming Krishna district with name of NTR itself is not a bad decision but it coming from YSRCP and Jagan is definitely a bad decision. For example, both Karunanidhi and Jayalalitha are political stalwarts of Tamilnadu and both are great personalities in their own way. However still, even after Jayalalitha’s death, DMK leaders like Stalin remind people of corruption cases on Jayalalitha. Because they clearly know people supporting one party at the cost of other, definitely have some anti sentiments against the other party. If Stalin announces to bestow any great honor on Jayalalitha, definitely he would draw ire from the cadre and also from the leaders of his own party. Indira Gandhi, Karunanidhi , YSR, Jayalalitha, Modi – all these leaders have great fan following and hard core fans and at the same time they have anti fans who hate them to the core. NTR is not exception for this. People who hate one of these leaders obviously support the other party. But if that other party also supports those same leaders, these people will definitely be in a disappointment.
This is very simple logic in politics which Jagan party strategists have missed. YSRCP leaders from Krishna District like Ramachandra have demanded Jagan to take back his words or else he will resign to the party. Vangaveeti Narendra, relative of vangaveeti Radha, also came down heavily on Jagan and YSRCP for his decision in a TV debate in which Lakshmi Parvathi was representing YSRCP. He questioned what did NTR do for Krishna district and he also mentioned Ranga’s name during the debate. To counter his argument, Lakshmi Parvathi had to belittle Ranga in comparison with NTR. Obviously this is not a good move as Ranga is an icon for some section of people, no matter what other sections say. Rubbing on the wrong side of this section of people who actually are a major chunk of voters, will definitely hamper the prospects of YSR CP. Strategists of the YSRCP party not be able to predict this development clearly exposes the lack of political acumen and going for this idea to woo the voters of Krishna District displays the bankruptcy of ideas for political strategists of YSRCP.
It is to be noted that some sections of people requested Chandrababu Naidu to name the capital city of Andhra Pradesh with the name of NTR as early as 2015 but Chandrababu denied the proposal as he clearly understand the repercussions that move. Maybe Jagan could have taken a cue from his political rival, at least in this move
-ZURAN
