| At least 60 persons either committed suicide or died of shock after hearing the news of Chief Minister YSR Reddy's death in a chopper crash. The deaths have been reported from Guntur, East Godavari, Hyderabad, Rangareddy, Prakasam, Medak, Nalgonda, Karimnagar and Kadapa, according to reports on Telugu television channels. Shocked by the spate of suicides, son Jagan Mohan Reddy appealed to the people not to resort to such extreme steps. "Due to such acts (suicides) my father's soul will not rest in peace. He had an ever-smiling face and worked for uplift of the poor. They (people) should not resort to such acts," an emotional Jagan said. Unfortunately, the media's hype projecting YSR's death as a catastrophe for the state too has contributed to this trend. While YSR was certainly a popular Chief Minister, he was not above board. The media should have covered him objectively including allegations of massive corruption against him and his family. The media lost its sense of balance. At a time when we are broad minded and liberal enough to analyse the actions of even the father of the nation and leaders like Pandit Nehru and Sardar Patel, why not objectively look at YSR? He was not God. Neither did he have the charisma of Prakasam or NTR. The media should not get carried away and mislead the gullible people. There is life beyond YSR both for Andhra and Congress. His death is undoubtedly a tragedy but let us not indulge in hipocrisy. Let not political crooks take advantage of this emotional and sensitive situation. |
Saturday, September 5, 2009
YSR Death : Need for a balanced approach
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yes sir what u said was exactly right.on 16th september mail today carried an article about false reporting of emotional deaths took place after ysr death.it is widely know that ther is alot of starvation in andhra districts.
ReplyDeleteso people have sucided ver farmers who were in debts. all the revenue officers took bribe from the victim families and registerd as emotional death.
i am very proud to say that y.s.r is of the richest politicain in the world.it is sircasting that he minted that money from poor people of andhra and karnataka.
it is open fact that it becoz of him congress lost the elections in karnataka.
after his death sonia and pm came to hyderabad and written and condolence note that "" it is a great loss to the nation and to the congress party "" it is ironical that when she contested from chikbalpur constituency,it was the galli janardhan reddy who funded sushma swaraj,,,,offcourse politics is last resort for scoundrels,,