Andhra Journos Declare War On Telangana Govt.!

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There is an uproar in Telangana on the TV9′s program called bullet news after it’s latest episode said unspeakable things about KCR & members of 1st Telangana assembly. TV9 just like other Andhra channels like ABN have been trying to discredit Telangana Govt over the promises it has to keep, even before it decided anything on how to implement those. In the process, TV9 not just went on to say KCR backtracked on the housing scheme but said he should watch his face in a mirror, a disgusting comment, just like the Andhra filmmaker RGV tweeted a day earlier.

While many in Telangana are shocked by the unsavory comments on their Chief Minister, this doesn’t surprise many observers who have been seeing this trend ever since TRS formed the government. ‘National newspaper’ THE HINDU in it’s report when KCR visited the Governor for the 1st time said the TRS leaders were squirming in discomfort when the Governor reminded all those ‘Go back Governor’ slogans TRS leaders gave at the peak of the Telangana agitation. The report was implying TRS leaders did something shameful and that the Governor holds a grudge. That shows how reporters in so-called national newspapers are not removed from the regional feeling that gripped Telangana and Andhra. The resident editor of the same newspaper tweeted saying KCR must have given a false alarm about Polavaram Ordinance when he warned one is on it’s way. Hours later Srinivas Reddy ate the humble pie after the President promulgated the ordinance! The former resident editor of the same newspaper Nagesh Kumar runs a blog that is full of blind prejudices against Telangana movement & TRS in particular. It is a surprise a person with such blind hate was leading THE HINDU for so many years in Hyderabad, till 2 months before. We can only guess how objectively he lead the reporting.

Not to be left behind, THE NEW INDIAN EXPRESS did full stories on how the TRS Govt. went back on it’s poll promise on farm loan waiver. Then they did a story on how Polavaram was not all discussed in KCR’s meeting with PM and President just because it was not on the list of 14 To-Do petition KCR’s delegation handed over to PM. The surprise in both the stories is that they managed them without a single comment or quote from TRS or Telangana Govt! It is pure propaganda. It is clear they didn’t even try eliciting a comment from the Govt before they carried their stories. If the so-called national media can be so biased with a few prejudiced Andhra journos, we can as well imagine what the vernacular Andhra media is upto with episodes like the one mentioned above.

One latest case of Andhra spin is the Largi dam tragedy. Despite the commendable speed with which Telangana Govt acted in sensitivity with the plight of the parents of students hurt and lost in the tragedy, Andhra media started playing filthy politics on how Chandrababu Naidu did a ‘better job’ in arranging a private charter compared to Telangana Govt. Channels like ABN flashed this news even while scores of bodies are still in Beas river. While the Telangana Govt rightly refused to get into the debate of what it did or did not do vis-a-vis Naidu and is concentrating on it’s duty, it would be fool worthy if they continue to be ignorant of the threats posed by media held by few crony capitalists who feel threatened by the 1st Telangana Govt. as it may sooner or later investigate and take action on their illegally occupied land banks in and around Hyderabad. Telangana Govt. needs a media strategy to counter the prejudice and propaganda against it.