D-Day fast approaching for Chiru!

party: All set for the big leap - Final touches to Chiru party's policies
Managers busy giving a final shape to policies regarding welfare schemes for the poor
Suresh Krishnamoorthy

HYDERABAD: As the 'muhurat' for launching of film actor Chiranjeevi's party fast approaches, his managers are busy giving a final shape to their policies regarding welfare schemes for the poorer sections.
In interactions over the past few weeks, core members of the team in the yet-to-be-named as-yet-unnamed political party have been dropping broad hints to different weaker sections of society, particularly about their policies in the power sector, rice and housing schemes, as also scholarships to the weaker sections.

Roadblock

It is understood that the party has hit a roadblock when it came to chalking out a firm policy on the quantum of reservations to the backward classes, especially with divergent views being voiced in the wake of the Congress Party's resolve to allot a third of the Assembly tickets to the BCs.
As for the actual announcement of the party's launch, organisers are toying with the idea of holding public meetings in Hyderabad, Vijayawada and Tirupati, on the same day with the star hopping from one place to another by a chartered helicopter. The logistics are being worked out and the party discussing various options to get 'maximum coverage' for the launch.

Re-schedule of plans

The reluctance of the managers to reveal details like the party's name, the launch date and composition of the organising committee has also started posing problems for them. In the absence of spokespersons to communicate with the media, it had to re-schedule plans, about which information had got leaked in bits and pieces.
A case in point was the news that the megastar was planning a get-together with film industry bigwigs on August 10, ostensibly to thank them for the support extended to him in his three decades-old film career and seek their continued patronage in his political 'avatar' too. However, since several people misunderstood it as a 'farewell' organised by the star himself, Mr. Chiranjeevi asked his managers to call it off.

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Its raining ...!

Hello,

Since Friday evening, its been raining and doing so like crazy. As someone said, it started with raining flies n mosquitoes and then moved to raining cats n dogs. And in about a half an hour, when it rained donkeys n buffaloes, the civic system in much-touted Cyberabad went for a toss.

Half an hour and about 5 cm of rain was enuf to make the administration go bust. And to think that in a few hours about two years ago Mumbai received a whopping 80 cm of Lord Varuna's blessings. The way Mumbaikars got back 2 routine daily life within 48 hours was something that was much-spoken, much-written and much-read-about.

Sigh! Even as the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation got its act together and had rescue workers on the roads, the rain picked up again and according to the Metwallahs, it going to be plain sailing, err ... plain n more raining for another 48 hours. Remains to be seen how people cope with the continued dose of Varuna's blessings.

Didnt someone say too much can lead to indigestion? Anywayz, there's one group of people, rather one political party that is thanking its Stars for the rain. Our Chief Minister YSR was admitted getting worried n more worried as the weeks passed without the skies letting up and sending the rain pouring.

Atleast now that that problem has been solved with divine intervention, Hyderabadis can only hope the administration will get its act together and make daily life as smooth as possible.

Au Revoir, Ciao, Cheers n Tata,

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