Chiru’s mega restraint A megastar who reigned supreme in a dog-eat-dog tinsel town appears to have gotten over his initial hiccups of falling a prey to the arc lights on him. In the past several months since he launched Praja Rajyam, the party president K. Chiranjeevi was very much in the habit of appeasing his fans, including media persons who were almost in a frenzy all these days.
However, on Monday, while introducing his 17 other colleagues in the Praja Rajyam Legislature Party, still photographers and television cameramen called out, asking him for a ‘Thumbs Up’ with both his hands, a pose that has been oft-repeated by now. Considering the debacle in the hustings and having won just 18 Assembly seats, Mr. Chiranjeevi politely declined, kept his hands close around his chest and flashing his famous grin, refused to give in.
Will the monsoon continue to perform well in twin cities and elsewhere in the State? Already, the Central MET department of New Delhi forecast that this year the monsoons would be near normal and this bodes well for the State. Monsoons have performed very well in the last five years in the State and this fact has been made use of by the Congress in the elections.
Will the second term of Dr. Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy too prove lucky and bring normal showers in the State? Only time will tell.
Citizens in the twin cities took a post-election breather with the absence of too many victory rallies and processions, thanks to the axe effect of the Election Commission with its Model Code of Conduct still being in force.
And so it turned out that most other areas did not see as much commotion in the form of traffic jams and like with victorious candidates celebrating on the roads. Interestingly, the exception turned out to be the vicinity of Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy’s camp residence in Somajiguda, where victorious candidates were making their presence felt.
Hyderabad may be touted at the IT hub of India giving rise to an impression that people living in this city are well educated. Educated, they may be, but they are as gullible as anyone else.
There are many people in this knowledge hub city who believe that some magic coin will have powers to bend the candle flame and attract rice grains. And they do not mind to spend any amount of money to acquire one such magic coin, police found the oth er day. When police busted this gang which was silently spreading word that they had this coin and want to sell, many educated people made a beeline to them only to be confined and ransom extorted. For a good measure to ‘convince’ them to part with money, they were even thrashed by the gangsters. It was indeed a jaw-dropping experience for the police who raided a place where they were confined to learn that it was in the hope of acquiring the magic coin they landed themselves in such a soup.
Just when everyone was taking it easy about the possibility of someone being infected with Influenza A (H1NI) flu in Hyderabad, then came the bombshell from the Government chest hospital. There indeed was one person who tested positive.
Till then, it had almost become a routine for the newspersons to check up with the hospital authorities who would routinely give out information about two or three passengers every day being quarantined and then in the same breath announce that those admitted the previous day had tested negative for the virus.
By the time this youngster tested positive, newsmen, mostly the video channels had lost interest in the Chest Hospital beat. Shows that news developments sometimes take everyone by surprise.
New responsibility: Praja Rajyam president Chiranjeevi with party MLAs in Hyderabad on Monday. — 