Demands are once again surfacing in TDP quarters for the new capital to be named after NT Rama Rao. This proposal was first initiated by Nandamuri Balakrishna, son of NTR and sycophants are quickly latching on to it. (Interestingly, Balakrishna chose to side with Chandrababu Naidu when the latter dismantled NTR in a coup).
The silver lining is that Chandrababu himself is believed to be not too keen on the idea. Are the Telugu people so bereft of legendary personalities that they have to stoop down to a person like NTR to name the new capital after? Is there no one in Telugu history, politics or culture better than NTR?
Why not the name of Potti Sreeramulu garu whose sacrifice made possible the formation of Andhra Pradesh? Why not the name of Sri Krishna Deva Raya? There are hundreds of such luminaries! Why then NTR? Just because he is the father of Balayya and the founder of TDP which is currently in power?
And is NTR a person with a blemish less character? He had umpteen numbers of corruption cases against him not to mention allegations of his involvement in the murders of Vangaveeti Ranga and Pingali Dasaratha Ram apart from his patronage of factionists like Paritala Ravi.
NTR is a God to his community because he might have brought them to economic and political prosperity, but to the rest of the Telugus, he is just another politician and a very good actor. Period! His projection into a demi-god is largely on account of the mass media which again is controlled by his community.
Surely, the Telugu people deserve better respect than to be insulted by having the new capital named after NTR, if and when it is constructed.
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