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The answer lies in caste politics
September 08, 2008
GGiven such high stakes, to quote Jogaiah, are all political parties going to get 'get washed away in the Chiranjeevi tsunami'?
The problem with the Congress in Andhra Pradesh has always been a rapid turnover of chief ministers, but even the two most distinguished ones, P V Narasimha Rao and N Sanjeeva Reddy, who went on to become prime minister and president of India, were Brahmin and Reddy respectively. The Congress has never offered the people of Andhra Pradesh a CM from the Backward Classes.
The most prominent BCs are the Kapus: Some sub-castes are considered backward while others are counted among the forward castes (in itself a conspiracy to divide them, but that's another issue). Chiranjeevi is a Munnuru Kapu -- from the forward among the backward. United, Kapus and other backward sub-castes can represent a politically-electrifying force in Andhra Pradesh politics.
Image: Samajwadi Party leaders Amar Singh, Jayaprada and Jaya Bachan with Chiranjeevi at his party office.
Photograph: Snaps India
Also read: Chiranjeevi's grand entry into politics
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