Vijayawada political story-1

Vijayawada…..What is so special in this name?  it’s a great railway junction. It has a living river flowing by its side. It has given India its national flag. It was a place where great leaders who played a crucial role in the Indian independence struggle were born.It has one of the shakti peetas.  It has one of the biggest bus-terminals in the world.  It has the most comfortable weather , an all-time spring scenario. It is a center for education. It is the place where the leaders of the cinema industry were mentored. To put it in one sentence “It is the place where people think!”

On the other hand it is that place in India which is only next to Mumbai in terms of rowdy sheets. It is the place rowdies have ruled for decades. It is the place where a girl who steps outside the house is so insecure.  Apart from rowdy history which Ram Gopal Varma is portraying there is the other dark side. It has become a fashion to kill in the name of love. And all started here! In this little town! The place where a heroine named pratyusha was gang raped and murdered, Sree Lakshmi was killed in an exam hall, a Gemini news reader was murdered and raped after that, Ayesha meera ‘s case, Nagasree’s case all these did not meet the nation’s attention like the ruchika’s case or the aarushi talwar’s case. Why??

Because we have rowdies here to settle the cases! We don’t need any courts. We have been kept away from development by these rowdies. There are no heroes in them as shown in movies. Here both groups fight for evil. They fight for their cause or rather to put it straight they fight for their caste.  No leader has born in the slums in Vijayawada. I declare! I stay in one! the difference is just that my house hasn’t got so many holes in the asbestos sheet as my neighbors’. So its manageable in the rainy season. I have been in vijayawada for 17 long years of my life. No leader comes there! I only remember them coming to my house during elections.

Vijayawada has been the hub for the politics of the coastal region of Seemandhra for a while. What I post in the subsequent posts and this one is from what I have seen and heard as I grew up. My father is one man whom I have always appreciated because he never behaved the way a normal father would have. He used to read me out chandamama stories sandwiched with Marxian literature and various kinds of topics while I was a kid. He made me a news addict as he is! But that has helped! I blink if a good mathematical equation is being discussed but not when any Political issue or a general issue is being discussed upon. He is a failure in life as my mother mockingly says, but, no dad you are my hero still!

The politics of Vijayawada have been complicated for a long time. It is one place where still the communists believe(??) that they have a strong hold upon . Yes the communists are responsible for the Bloodshed the division of CPI and CPM has resulted in the outbreak of the likes of Ranga and Nehru who are supposed to be the biggest rowdies of all time in Vijayawada. Students too have played their role. Even now in certain colleges in Vijayawada people form their circles based on their castes. NTR, treated as great by many will not be forgiven by the people of Vijayawada(barring some fools).

If there is any city which has seen blood without Mafia, communal riots, bomb blasts…It is Vidyalawada maa Vijayawada. It is known that Wrong-go-pal War-man (Ram Gopal Varma) has shown the dangerous Ravi and Suri as heros in rakta charitra. I don’t think it’ll be any different in the case of Vijayawada.  So, friends, his engineering life in Vijayawada doesn’t suffice, to portray the real colors of the rowdies.  He is a friend of the MP of Vijayawada who was then the student leader of his college. It is so natural that varma will take sides. Let the truth be un-biased. I will be posting it in parts.