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Tongue-lashing

Some politicians rise to top positions thanks to their ingenuity, hard work and caring for people. But it is sad to see one such leader lose control over his tongue.

Narsipatnam MLA Ch. Ayyanna Patrudu is one of the important leaders who can handle the party even if it is in dire striates but his comments on reporters at the public hearing on Anrak Aluminium Limited at Rachapalli are a matter of concern.

He is piqued at some newspapers which carried stories that he (MLA of the area) is not taking the public hearing seriously by holidaying at a summer resort since there is no confirmation from his party that he would be attending the meeting. There is also an allegation that he watered down the agitation against the alumina refinery held in the past after taking it to the peak.

Senior journalists point out that Mr. Patrudu earned the ire of his party boss N. Chandra Babu Naidu by making comments on the latter providing some sops to people if he comes back to power. But it is thanks to the press that he escaped a certain disciplinary action from his party high command. Mr. Patrudu thanked some senior journalists for saving his skin at that time. But the same man is now making disparaging comments on reporters, the seniors regretted.

‘Small’ but big impact

Television is a very powerful medium. Housewives are said to be attending their daily chores during advertisement breaks. Many big screen celebrities are coming to the small screen and more and more satellite TV channels are being launched.

While the news channels are competing with one another in dishing out crime-based programmes, the entertainment channels are coming out with dance programmes in which the female dancers seem to be judged by the exposure they make.

Speakers at the recent TV Nandi Awards function voiced their concern at the big impact of the small screen on the young minds and called for self-regulation by TV producers, failing which the Government would be forced to use the scissors.

Parking blues

The railway authorities, albeit controversial, have hit upon a novel idea. Finding no way to prevent parking of vehicles for a long time at `park and proceed lane’ in front of the Visakhapatnam railway station, they have decided to take recourse to some `illegal’ means. Henceforth, they have announced that the tyres of vehicles parked in the lane for more than a minute will be deflated!

G. Narasimha Rao,

B. Madhu Gopal and Santosh Patnaik

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