Hyderabad : Campaign for the by-elections to Nellore Lok Sabha and 18 Assembly constituencies is coming to close on Sunday evening. Most nauseatingly, campaign was mostly focused on below the belt and unethical personal attacks by all the political parties on their opponents.Congress party should have explained what it had done to the people since 2004 to ask votes. TDP should have said what Congress has not done. YSR Congress should have told the people what it would do if voted to power now or later.None have done this. There were mean allegations by all star campaigners. Both Congress and TDP have concentrated on the YSR Congress chief Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy. Chief Minister Kiran Kumar Reddy and opposition leader Chandra Babu Naidu have sat in judgment and even decided prison term Jagan would be facing even before courts found him guilty. Congress Rajya Sabha member Chiranjeevi and minister Dharmana Prasada Rao were issued notices by the Election Commission for making communal remarks. The Chief Minister was issued notices for asking people to cast ten votes each and making comments over religious sanctity of Tirupati.
Political parties left nothing to chance and concentrated on defaming their opponents through all means. The language used by leaders of all parties made the worst gangsters bow their heads in shame.The fact that Jagan was targeted by all the parties showed his strength. Congress and TDP which usually target each other had concentrated on showering abuses on Jagan. Both parties declared that YSR Congress was their main rival and the other would be in third place.
It was when the poll campaign was in high pitch that Jagan was arrested. This has stunned every one. Chandrababu even said that Congress which came to the conclusion that it cannot win the elections, got Jagan jailed so that he would win.In western countries, one who is arrested is generally looked down. In India it is not the case. DMK MP and party supremo M Karunanidhi’s daughter Kanimozhi received a rousing welcome when she was released on bail after arrest on economic offences. She is being treated as the modern version of Jhansi Raji by the DMK cadres. Former union minister A Raja also received tumultuous welcome when he was recently granted bail and permitted to visit Chennai.
This is the Indian mentality. They sympathize even with a criminal if he is put behind bars. Poor people in this country are used to police foisting false cases against them at the behest of the rich. This is the reason why they do not believe police charges and arrests. This is also the reason why there was ground swell of sympathy for Jagan after his arrest. It was alleged that even he has realized that it would be better for him in jail, allowing his mother and sister to campaign, so that the party would have the benefit of public sympathy. Jagan is charged of rejecting interim bail for poll campaign.How this bane campaign by all the parties would deliver results would be known in a few days. However, the common people are sad that their leaders instead of showing them a glorious path to follow, had proved that they could stoop to any level to trounce their opponents.
Political parties left nothing to chance and concentrated on defaming their opponents through all means. The language used by leaders of all parties made the worst gangsters bow their heads in shame.The fact that Jagan was targeted by all the parties showed his strength. Congress and TDP which usually target each other had concentrated on showering abuses on Jagan. Both parties declared that YSR Congress was their main rival and the other would be in third place.
It was when the poll campaign was in high pitch that Jagan was arrested. This has stunned every one. Chandrababu even said that Congress which came to the conclusion that it cannot win the elections, got Jagan jailed so that he would win.In western countries, one who is arrested is generally looked down. In India it is not the case. DMK MP and party supremo M Karunanidhi’s daughter Kanimozhi received a rousing welcome when she was released on bail after arrest on economic offences. She is being treated as the modern version of Jhansi Raji by the DMK cadres. Former union minister A Raja also received tumultuous welcome when he was recently granted bail and permitted to visit Chennai.
This is the Indian mentality. They sympathize even with a criminal if he is put behind bars. Poor people in this country are used to police foisting false cases against them at the behest of the rich. This is the reason why they do not believe police charges and arrests. This is also the reason why there was ground swell of sympathy for Jagan after his arrest. It was alleged that even he has realized that it would be better for him in jail, allowing his mother and sister to campaign, so that the party would have the benefit of public sympathy. Jagan is charged of rejecting interim bail for poll campaign.How this bane campaign by all the parties would deliver results would be known in a few days. However, the common people are sad that their leaders instead of showing them a glorious path to follow, had proved that they could stoop to any level to trounce their opponents.
