Andhra Pradesh Legislative Council Deputy Chairman S.V.Satish Kumar Reddy has finally decided to remove his 19-month old beard. He vouched not to remove his beard until Krishna waters are brought down to Pulivendala, the fortress of YS family. In way exposing, exactly how the local people are being deprived of irrigation facilities by continuously and blindly voting to YSR family.
Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu will be releasing water from Gandipet lift to Pydipalem on January 11. Immediately after the water reaches the village, Reddy said he would shave his beard and head, and offer prayers at a near-by Sai Baba temple thereafter. Thus preparing to withdraw his `Jala Deeksha’.
Since YS Rajasekhara Reddy became Chief Minister and no one stood against his family in his native Pulivendala constituency. However, Satish Reddy emerged as a potential young TDP leader, who can challenge their ‘supremacy’. Though he failed to register substantial electoral upper hand but he succeeded in remaining as a `hard nut’ for the family.
He was rewarded by Chandrababu Naidu after returning to power with MLC seat and later made him the Deputy Chairman of the Council. Chief Minister frequently claimed that his focus on irrigation projects would benefit YS’s Pulivendala too, which was allegedly neglected during YS regime.
Satish Reddy recalls “whenever I look into the mirror my beard reminds me of my task to get Krishna waters to this place”, he added. His `beard deeksha’ surfaced unexpectedly at a press meet in Kadapa, when media persons were suspicious that as TDP had won only one assembly seat in the district, Chief Minister may ignore this area.
But, expressing confidence on Naidu’s leadership, to prove that no discrimination would be shown towards this district, he said he started this `deeksha’ on June 2, 2015, almost one year after TDP returned to power. Since then, he said every day he has been monitoring on the progress of works with officials and engineers. He travelled thrice all the way from Gandipet to Pothireddypatu, for a field study on the progress of works.
