Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu on Thursday tweeted that the YSRCP was the ‘B’ team that anyone with common sense could find in the BJP’s pocket and a ‘T’ team that mortgaged Andhra’s self-respect to K. Chandrasekhara Rao, accusing them of colluding against the TDP.
In response, BJP State president Kanna Lakshminarayana said even a person who had no common sense could grasp the fact that it was the TDP that had an ‘A’ team with the YSRCP MLAs, and had the Congress, the Jana Sena Party, the Left parties, the Praja Santhi of K.A. Paul, and BSP as ‘B’, ‘C’, ‘D’, ‘E’ and ‘F’ teams.
What’s in a glass tumbler?
The BJP had won the 2014 elections on the back of an intense ‘Chai Pe Charcha’ campaign. That was when Narendra Modi’s speeches were beamed live on televisions at vantage points in cities and towns as people sipped hot tea in glass, steel and plastic tumblers, free of cost.
Five years down the line, the glass tumblers are back as Jana Sena Party’s (JSP) election symbol.
The JSP activists can be seen offering tea and coffee in those very tumblers at party gatherings in a gesture that is reminiscent of that campaign.
Pawan Kalyan seems to have set the storm brewing in his own tea cup now.
