Meet KCR – the song writer

TRS supremo has given his touch to the campaign songs

A known fighter leading a massive movement, a wily politician destructing the opposition and a lyricist creating a heart-warming situation — it’s a combination that rarely seen in a politician.

Caretaker Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao after dissolving the Assembly 9 months ahead catching the opposition unawares, and boldly announcing 105 candidates names at one go three months ahead of the polling date, is now using literary skills writing a few songs for the party campaign that he is ready to electrify.

Mr. Rao, whose literary skills are well known, is now giving a shape to an album consisting of six songs. He himself has written two songs for it and made changes to four other songs written by Suddala Ashok Teja, Mattepalli Surender and Goreti Venkanna.

Tweaking lyrics

One of the songs goes as ‘Maanavataku Maaru Peru KCRu Malli Gelichi Raavali Manasugalla Sarkaru’ (He is a sobriquet of humanism and the government with a heart should come back). “In fact, the Chief Minister has made changes to the lyrics of other writers at some places making the song more meaningful and linked to the schemes he has launched,” revealed TRS general secretary Palla Rajeshwar Reddy, who is party to the whole exercise.

The lyrics cover a range of KCR’s pet schemes like the pensions, Mission Bhagiratha, Kalyana Lakshmi, KCR kits in hospitals and irrigation projects where he creates the image of being the eldest son of the family while targeting the women and as the head of the house when youngsters are the target group.

Mr. Chandrasekhar Rao is so meticulous even in the music arrangement that he himself has suggested removing the musical notes between the stanzas so that people are more rooted the lyrics than the music. These songs both in audio and video formats will be the major weapons in the election campaign to be kicked off soon by him personally.

Swaying people

KCR is used to penning lyrics and even during the Telangana agitation he had personally written lyrics highlighting how Telangana was ‘looted’ and ‘deliberately neglected’ drawing huge response. In fact, one of his songs “Garadi Chestundru, Gadibidi Chestundru, Tondiki Digutundru, Hey Mondiki Potundru...” was also used in the film ‘Jai Bolo Telangana’ that hit the screens at the peak of the Telangana movement.

Union Minister Smriti Irani and popular actor Jagapati Babu played lead roles in it.