It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say that politicians go to any length to seek media attention. Be it a press conference, a public meeting or an inaugural function, leaders just don’t get into the mood to get rolling until the pen pushers arrive. Events therefore, are planned meticulously to ensure they do not overlap for fear of media attention getting diluted.
The much-awaited inaugural of the interim Secretariat at Velagapudi in Amaravati recently clashed with couple programmes—formal opening of the R&B Department at Ibrahimpatnam and Nara Lokesh’s participation in the Government-sponsored Ramzan Tofa at One Town in Vijayawada city.
Is it Sun or
son-rise in State?
Politicians, of whatever hue, find it difficult to get away from politics. At a meeting to mark the birth anniversary of revolutionary Alluri Sitarama Raju, a person went poetic during his welcome address. CPI(M) politburo member B.V. Raghavulu did not like his being called rising son (udayabhanu). He gave it a context also. “Now, Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu calls Andhra Pradesh ‘Sunrise State.’ A friend commented it is “son-rise” State,” Mr. Raghavulu said.
No glass frontages please!
The Chief Minister’s vision of the capital city buildings at Amaravati has evoked global interest but there are some who did not see any merit in it. There are sceptics who belittled the designs, by comparing them to a boiler in a thermal power plant and even worse - a modern-day cemetery. Such is the doubt and apprehension occupied the mind-spaces till Mr. Naidu putting an end to all those theories, said CPI (M) politburo member B.V. Raghavulu in a seminar on the construction of capital city. Going further, the Communist leader said some reputed architects, particularly a leading one from London, advised against extensive use of glass as frontages. He told the CM that glass lets a lot of heat to enter the building and for controlling it (the heat) air-conditioners have to be installed and that it is a waste of resources. Such is the ‘grandeur’ being shown off day in and day out.
(P. Sujatha Varma, G.V. Prasada Sarma and V. Raghavendra)
