The Hindu : Andhra Pradesh News : Chiru for more surprise visits

Online edition of India's National Newspaper
Sunday, Sep 21, 2008
ePaper | Mobile/PDA Version

Andhra Pradesh

Andhra Pradesh

Chiru for more surprise visits

Special Correspondent

HYDERABAD: Praja Rajyam president Chiranjeevi has planned a few more surprise visits, the kind he made on Saturday by driving down to Sircilla for a first-hand look at the problems faced by weavers.

Sources said without disclosing details that his visit could be either to a social welfare hostel, a residential school, hospital or to a village where farmers were facing problems getting fertilizer.

Mr. Chiranjeevi is said to be keen on ensuring that his visits do not send out a wrong message about his party’s views on Andhra Pradesh as being either ‘integrationist or separatist”. It is likely that his next such surprise visit will be to a remote village in the Rayalaseema region, followed by another quick trip to some place in the coastal districts, most probably a flood-affected area. There has been some discussion on the subject of Mr. Chiranjeevi’s surprise visits in the party’s core committee meetings.

Creates flutter

However, Saturday’s visit to Sircilla created a flutter in party circles and it did not appear to have gone well with senior leaders who migrated to the PR from other parties. Unwilling to be quoted though, some leaders said the party presidents’ public appearance on Saturday was like giving a head start to PR aspirants from the Telangana region when it came to elections.

Printer friendly page
Send this article to Friends by E-Mail

Andhra Pradesh