In his crucial valedictory speech at the closing ceremony of Mahanadu, party supremo and AP CM Chandrababu Naidu spoke about significant topics varying from caste disparities to present political situation in the state to 2019 polls to the future of the state. Below are takeaways from Naidu’s energetic speech to party cadre.

A caste or a community or a religion or a region is not our priority. The State is our priority. Andhra Pradesh is my only priority. Political parties who wants to divide basis on caste, creed, religion or region won’t benefit any one. If anyone wants to gain political mileage out of caste/religion/region, the society will suffer. It’s high time we should raise awareness among people against castes/religions.

In 2019, people will teach a strong lesson to BJP and its allies parties (refers to Janasena and YSRCP). They are going to get sleepless nights. Pawan has repeatedly claiming that TDP had won because of him. There is no truth in it. Only after we quit NDA and separated from BJP, Pawan started attacking us. People are watching all this. There is a big conspiracy hatched from Delhi and they (Pawan, Jagan) are its players.

In the last 4 years, regional parties have become stronger. National parties have become weaker. BJP has lost its sheen and it cannot win in 2019. Modi has cheated people of the country. He betrayed Andhra Pradesh. Major changes are going to come in national politics soon and TDP is going to lead them. TDP will decide the next Prime Minister of the country.

Even to build a house, it takes 3 to 4 years. When I’m building a state from scratch, instead of supporting, many are creating hurdles and hatching conspiracies against us. We (TDP) will retaliate all those. You are questioning me (Chandrababu), I’m fine with it, but what about your (Janasena and YSRCP) understanding with BJP?

Youth is going to play a large role in TDP in coming days. I’m once again giving call to youth to come in large sections and work for TDP which focuses only on state development and your development.

Needless to say, some hot shot Telugu news channels like TV9, ABN and NTV got popular due to their CEOs too. While some of them are former journalists who are even hosting some highly successful chat shows, some of the CEOs just run the show from the background. But they are quite popular and efficient too.

Recently news has come out that a new TV channel named JTV will be rolled out soon, and this media house is likely to support Pawan Kalyan and his Janasena party. What has become a big problem for this TV channel is that, as the channel is being funded by a group of businessmen, they are actually unclear about the person they should offer the CEO post.

Though some top most journalist-cum-anchors coming from the top Telugu channels are offered lucrative salaries with designations like ‘Editor’ ‘Creative Editor’ and others, it’s heard that many are asking for a share in the channel and CEO post too. This has stunned the investors of JTV because they never expected that CEO position will be that fancying among media folks.

Reports are coming that a decision will be taken on this CEO post and how the channel is going to perform once Pawan Kalyan comes back to Hyderabad after his Porata Yaatra. But huge time is being wasted in this process, isn’t it?

With general elections are fast approaching and just short of a year, Pawan’s ‘mega’ confusion on his constituency leaves his fans and party leaders worried. Although initially, Pawan had initially declared that he would contest from Anantapur, he later seems to have changed his mind owing to the ground reports that ruling party is much stronger in Anantapur district. Apparently, this seems to have forced him to rethink on his constituency and change his mind.

Rumours are abuzz that Kalyan would contest from Srikakulam and a section of his party leaders are also vouching for his contest from the district given that his only and only ‘achievement’ is the raising issue of Uddanam Kidney problem. His one-day fast and his wide campaign in the district under Porata Yatra also adding to strong rumours that he would contest from Srikakulam.

Meanwhile, speculations are also rife that the actor-turned-politician who belongs to Kapu community may opt from a safe constituency in East Godavari district where his community strength is high. And there is the much debated topic of Pawan contesting from his native place Palakollu where earlier his brother Chiranjeevi had contested in 2009 and lost to Congress candidate Usha Rani. Considering the bad experience from the past and also the fact that sitting MLA Nimmala Rama Naidu is very strong locally, Pawan’s close aides are cautioning him to stay away from Palacole (Palakollu). And there is also talk about Pawan contesting from Tirupati where Chiru had won earlier with great difficulty in a triangular fight.

Wherever the place he is visiting, Pawan declaring his love towards every place and is trying to strike an emotional chord with locals is now seen as his strategy. But considering the ground reality in politics, leaders should have their own constituency, either native place or an adopted one with strong hold.

Apart from all the above, the most vital and crucial aspect is one will expect huge majority from Pawan Kalyan when he himself is contesting for the first time in direct elections after working/thinking for so long. However, the prevailing situation raises doubts on  possibilities for Pawan. Let alone other constituencies where no candidate is chosen by Pawan to contest, its high time for Pawan to at least decide on the constituency/constituencies that he would contest.

Given the situation, it is widely buzzed that Pawan would contest from 2 seats as a safe game. Let’s wait and see.

Whenever Mudragada Padmanabham speaks out in media, he would talk very little on the substance and stress more on his verbal attack on CM Chandrababu Naidu. The retired politician and Kapu neta Mudragada has shot off a fresh letter to Chandrababu where he accused him of pitting Kapu community leaders from TDP against him. He alleged Naidu of acting smart and wise by pitting leaders from same caste against one another and dividing people.

Citing examples like IYR Krishna Rao, Ramana Deekshitulu instances, Mudragada had accused the TDP chief of instigating Brahmin leaders from TDP against them. He even said how a Dalit MLA had to face the ire of Dalit leaders of his party when he had raised the involvement of a few party people in his constituency. He went on and on about the caste division issues.

Lacking major substance, Mudragada’s letter primarily targeted at Naidu has an endless such accusations, allegations. Alleging that Naidu has some ‘disease’ to provoke leaders of same community against his detractors, he advised Naidu to get it treated by national-level doctors or international-level doctors.

Talking about the recent TTD issue, Mudragada demanded Chandrababu Naidu to seek CBI probe into the assets of TTD. Mudragada, the former Congress and TDP leader, demanded Naidu to ask Modi and sought a CBI probe in the properties of TTD.

One is wondering what is the point that Mudragada is trying to make as he is often repeating the same old script on Naidu.