Why Mega star skips Mogalturu?
Narsapur: Fearing that the visit of Congress MP and Mogalturu born Chiranjeevi may prove to be counterproductive, the Congress leaders, reportedly, have asked the actor turned politician to keep himself away from Mogalturu.
Though he shined on the silver screen, Mega star Chiranjeevi campaigned around the town during his two-day road-show that ended on Thursday.
People of Mogalturu were thoroughly disappointed as they could not see their 'star' in the village. When he skipped the village on Wednesday, they thought that he may make it on Thursday at least. But he could not make it.
Chiranjeevi, born as Konidala Siva Sankar Prasad in Mogalturu village, had risen to the level of a matinee idol later. He studied at Narsapur Sri Y N College and during his college days he was an NCC cadet too.
He played a small role in a play-let at Aurobindo auditorium of YN College. That was his beginning. People of Mogalturu owned him as their proud son. Students of YN College too relate themselves to Chiranjeevi as their alumni. Chiranjeevi though earned name and fame; had a little concern towards his own native place.
When local people approached him to lend a helping hand in the construction of a marriage hall and to set-up a junior and Degree Colleges, their attempts proved futile. Then Chiranjeevi fans mobilized funds and constructed a library building and named after him as a token of their respect towards their 'Hero'.
Ande Bhujanga Rao of Mogalturu said that Chiranjeevi had no moral right to visit his native place. He had not visited when people suffered during tsunami catastrophe.
He failed to donate even a single pie even to a right cause, he pointed out. Despite repeated appeals from the locals he failed to lend a helping hand he pointed out. He was just an actor and failed to measure up to the expectations of the locals, he said.
News Posted: 8 June, 2012
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