![]() ![]() When met with silence, KTR moved on to other subjects but not before the moment was captured on video. ![]() Rama Rao found out the other day at one of his public meetings when he asked a question if women were getting piped water at their homes as the government promised. Then there is the problem of crowd response as minister K.T. Since this was right up front from where those on the dais could see, the organisers rallied their troops to come and fill the chairs quickly so when Prime Minister Narendra Modi began speaking, he would see well-filled galleries. The other day, the BJP had a peculiar problem in Nizamabad when the section set aside for the media had many empty chairs. With all parties holding public meetings it has now become commonplace for the organisers to keep calling on people to come forward and fill the chairs in the front so at least when cameras pan over the "crowd" they would show lots of people. The biggest worry for organisers of political rallies and public meetings are the empty chairs and camera management. Political shades to colours apart, the recent announcement by Prime Minister Narendra Modi of the setting up of a Turmeric Board saw celebrations in Nizamabad district where people celebrated a Holi of sorts, but with turmeric powder resulting in some wags commenting that if only the TD was around, it would have celebrated at least its party colour lacing the air, if nothing else. There was a time when the colour yellow was synonymous with politics in undivided Andhra Pradesh thanks to the TD, which was replaced by the pink of the then TRS and now the BRS. Do Telangana state politicians really need to skim off the savings of kids to fund their poll battles? That is the question that is yet to be answered. Incidentally, Telangana is the state that earned the dubious distinction of being home to the most expensive elections in the country, thanks to Huzurabad and Munugode bypolls where the BRS and the BJP waged do-or-die battles and are rumoured to have spent over Rs 500 crore each in each constituency. The question doing the rounds ever since is whether politicians in Telangana state really need to dip into the savings of kids. Srinivas Goud, and Errabelli Dayakar Rao accepting sums varying between Rs 200 and Rs 500 from kids who emptied their piggy banks to hand over their hard-saved cash to politicians for their poll expenses. ![]() Recently, video clips have been doing the rounds of ministers Vemula Prashanth Reddy, V. There are some who accept little gifts from little ones just to show how those tiny tender hearts beat for a politician whom they probably have no clue about. Scoring sympathy points is all well for politicians, especially in the run-up to the elections when most of their tribe can be seen carrying babies, giving a kid a bath, or frying pakodas ensuring a photo-op does not go to waste. ![]()
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