What happens to Jagan?
Hyderabad: For someone who has been at the Odarpu Yatra for the past many months, wiping tears of those who lost a dear one, apparently after YSR's death, he will need some Odarpu himself now. He is trying to bat like Yusuf Pathan by threatening the life of the Kiran Kumar Reddy government.
He is banking on the support of the people in the coastal Andhra and Rayalaseema regions, should there be byelections, or even better for him, if the government falls. He would hope there is no moral outrage against corruption, the kind that saw the downfall of the Karunanidhi empire in Tamilnadu.
Which is why the Jagan group is trying to keep the focus on YSR. How a deceitful Congress has sullied the name of the leader who brought it to power in 2004 and 2009. And that the son is being targeted because he dared to walk out of the party.
For the Congress, which sees Jagan as a huge threat, this is the time to finish him off politically. His party is still amorphous. And if the CBI seals his bank accounts, Jagan's business empire especially his media house Sakshi could be in the ICU. That would be a huge blow.
At the moment, Chandrababu Naidu is banking on people to recoil with moral outrage. Which is why he is pedalling high-speed to be on the anti-corruption vehicle of Anna Hazare. He would hope to be the cat that will take away the bread while the Congress and Jagan fight it out.
But then politics, like cricket is a funny game. Never rule out Jagan shaking hands with the same Congress hand that is now out to bite him, in the event of him coming good at the hustings.
As political analyst Nageshwar puts it, at the moment, it is a low pressure area over the Jagan Bay. How much destruction it causes, will depend on whether it develops into a deep depression and eventually a cyclone.
News Posted: 22 August, 2011
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