Newly-inducted Congress leader K Chiranjeevi appears to be too ambitious about his political career and considering himself a god-sent gift to the Andhra politics.
The political circles were taken by surprise with his comment that the people want to see him as Chief Minister in the real life and not in reel life and that he would ascend the throne sooner or later.
Call it an audacious or an arrogant or an ambitious statement; but it is pretty evident that Chiranjeevi is imagining too big about himself.
Just because Congress president Sonia Gandhi had personally requested him to merge his Praja Rajyam Party with her party; just because a senior most leader like A K Antony airdashed to Hyderabad to exclusively meet him in Hyderabad and just because, he was invited to New Delhi a couple of times for a brain-storming meeting with the top leaders of the Congress high command, Chiranjeevi feels that the Congresss party had no other leader who could match him in charisma and popularity; and hence, he stands a fair chance of becoming the chief minister.
But poor Chiranjeevi seems to be unaware of the Congress style of politics. In this party, everybody is a leader and everybody wants to outsmart others to rise to the hot seat. Already, Kadapa MP Y S Jaganmohan Reddy left the Congress party just because he was denied the Chief Minister post and floated his own regional party – YSR Congress Party – to try his luck by going into the people. Pradesh Congress Committee president Botsa Satyanarayana has already expressed his ambition to become the chief minister one day or the other for which he has already started preparing the ground. There are many others who are in the queue – K Jana Reddy, D Srinivas, Lagadapti Rajagopal and Daggubati Purandeshwari, who have never hidden their ambitions to become the chief ministers.
Secondly, Chiranjeevi has proved himself a flop show in politics. In his first attempt itself, he lost the elections from his native town Palakole in West Godavari district and won with not-so-impressive margin in Tirupati. And going by the field reports, it is extremely difficult for Chiranjeevi to retain the Tirupati seat again in the next elections, given the emergence of YSR Congress party as a strong political force in this constituency. One doubts whether Chiranjeevi will dare contest from Tirupati again.
And yes, there is still some chance for Chiranjeevi. Now that he has merged his party with the Congress, he has to resign from his assembly seat and contest again from Tirupati. If he can win with a comfortable majority, then he can still project himself as a strong force and can stake claim for the Chief Minister post. But in the present circumstances, it is most unlikely to happen.
So, it is better Chiranjeevi stop building castles in air, move to the Centre as a Rajya Sabha member and enjoy the Cabinet berth offered to him in the next three years. One does not know what his fate would be after the three years.
Otherwise, it is better Chiranjeevi keep his options open on acting in films. That would still get him name, fame and money!
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