CHIRANJEEVI'S FIX!

Desaraju Surya
Hyderabad: Saalako gruham naasaya, sarvam naasaya matukaha. This Sanskrit saying means a brother-in-law can ruin your house while a maternal uncle could ruin everything one has.
This aptly applies to Chiranjeevi, the Megastar of Telugu films. His life, as everyone knows, is in the hands of his brother-in-law Allu Aravind. So much so that Chiranjeevi can simply do nothing without Aravind’s influence.
Well, in the film industry nothing might have gone wrong as far as the duo was concerned. But politics is a different ball game altogether and none and nothing will be spared in public life if things are not worked out well.
Chiranjeevi may have understood by now the damage that has been done to his infant Praja Rajyam Party because of the evil influence of Aravind. As things stand in the PRP, Aravind seemed to have become Chiranjeevi’s nemesis. Both PRP insiders and outsiders will vouch for it.
What happened in the PRP’s Political Affairs Committee meeting, held days after the election results were out, gave clear indications that senior politicians who joined the PRP with lot of hope and ambition would not remain kind to Aravind or his excessive authority in the party. If insiders in PRP were to be believed, there was a near revolt against Aravind and every leader worth the name wanted his scalp.
Left badly battered in the recent Assembly and Lok Sabha elections, the PRP is now seemingly getting embroiled in an internal strife which could only snowball.
Though Chiranjeevi is the hero, his Man Friday is turning out to be a villain. Aravind himself lost the Lok Sabha election from Anakapalle constituency despite his loud talk of winning even by “one vote.”
Every voter discussed only one thing about PRP after the election process in the state started: how the party tickets were “sold away” to candidates. And, everyone was sincerely convinced that the PRP was launched with the sole motive of making money. This talk had a telling impact on the PRP, which of course was never in the reckoning to win the elections. The talk over sale of tickets left the Megastar’s party decimated in the electoral battle.
Chiranjeevi, however, would not let a fly land on his brother-in-law. He took pains to dispel, what he called, a “deliberate, vicious, Goebbel’s campaign” against Aravind. “We made enough money in our profession (films). We need not earn money through dubious means like sale of party tickets,” he pointed out.
The PRP was established with the sole objective of “serving the people,” he tried to emphasise.
On listening to Chiranjeevi’s latest assertions, one couldn’t help but recall a Telugu saying … chetulu kaalaka aakulu pattukuni prayojanam ledu. (There is no use rubbing your palms with leaves after they are burnt). The PRP will have to wait for five more years for another verdict to be delivered on them.