For the last nine years, the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) or its earlier form Telangana Rashtra Samithi government headed by chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao has been treating Andhra Jyothy and ABN-Andhra Jyothy managing director Vemuri Radhakrishna with utter contempt.
Maybe because of Radha Krishna’s pro-Telugu Desam Party stand or anti-KCR stand in writing stories, the Telangana government has completely ostracised Andhra Jyothy daily and its associated ABN-Andhra Jyothy television news channel.
Both the daily and channel have not been getting any advertisements from the government and a former director of state information and public relations department openly disclosed that KCR asked him to crush Andhra Jyothy. Even KCR said that he would not like to give ads to newspapers which oppose him.
But as the elections are fast approaching, KCR appears to have come to some understanding with Radha Krishna. Suddenly, Andhra Jyothy has started getting advertisements from the BRS towards party advertisements for elections.
On Monday, KCR’s son and BRS working president K T Rama Rao took part in ABN Big Debate hosted by Radha Krishna and answered a volley of questions. He said he would regularly read Andhra Jyothy to update his knowledge.
KTR made it clear that there was absolutely no anti-incumbency against the government. He said the BRS would win the elections hands down and the BJP and the Congress would have to fight for the second position.
He said his father KCR was the most democratic person in the country. There was no need for a common man to meet KCR; if that is required, the official machinery has failed.
“I am not saying we did not make mistakes in the last nine years, but it has not created any anti-incumbency. Even if some sections of people are angry, they will not vote for other parties,” he said.
