The Hindu : CM leaves schoolgirls disappointed

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Thursday, Jan 29, 2004

Andhra Pradesh

Andhra Pradesh - Cuddapah

CM leaves schoolgirls disappointed

By Our Staff Reporter

CUDDAPAH, JAN. 28. Schoolgirls who performed the much-publicised `Cuddapotsavam' theme song at the inaugural on Wednesday, wereleft dejected, as the Chief Minister, N. Chandrababu Naidu, had no time to watch it.

About 600 girls of various schools in the town, who had rehearsed the dance for several days, were asked to sit on floor in a barricade in front of the dais since morningwithout any tent overhead. They braved the scorching heat hoping to present their programme before the Chief Minister.

The Chief Minister inaugurated the festival and speaker after speaker delivered speeches even as the compere was asking the girls over the mike to get ready for performing their dance.

After half-a-dozen unsuccessful attempts, an announcement was made asking them to perform the dance, but Mr. Naidu began his address and the girls who stood for their performance, had to sit down again.

They began their dance as soon as the Chief Minister concluded his speech, but Mr. Naidu got off the dais and proceeded to the helipad, leaving the girls dumbstruck and their parents angry.

The theme song dance was originally conceived with girls holding lit up candles and was to be performed in the night, but it was included as a special event to be performed before the Chief Minister and the girls danced with a bunch of plastic flowers in their hands in sunlight.

The police at the municipal stadium allowed leaders, officials and mediapersons through two metal detector doorframes after thorough frisking in view of the beefed-up security.

The only privileged ones to enter the stadium without being checked were women of DWCRA and SHGs, who constituted a major chunk of the audience for the inaugural apart.

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