Despite missing the early morning flight to Visakhapatnam and hence the muhurtam, Telugu Desam’s star campaigner Jr NTR went all out to impress upon people that the ideologies followed by the TD today are same as the ones that the party had when it was founded by his grandfather N.T. Rama Rao.He was to launch the TD campaign at 10.36 am after performing a special puja at the Swetcha Devi temple. However, Jr NTR missed the flight and reached Visakhapatnam only at 11.20 am, and could reach the venue only by 1.15 pm.
The TD parliamentary party leader, Mr K. Yerrannaidu, had some anxious moments because the time between 1.30 pm and 3 pm was considered inauspicious.Frustated with the delay in the star’s arrival, some unidentified people hurled stones at Jr NTR’s campaign vehicle at Nuvvularevu. However, Jr NTR took it all in his stride.Dressed in khaki just like NTR who launched his political campaign at Itchapuram in 1982, the actor addressed several meetings at Itchapuram and Kanchili.
He formed the party with the sole aim of giving succor to the poor and the minorities. “He created an awareness among people when the self-respect of the Telugu people was under the carpet of the Delhi rulers,” Jr NTR said. NTR travelled 3,500 kms meeting people before floating the Telugu Desam. “No political leader in India ever thought of padayatra until NTR did,” he said. “Though NTR is not there anymore, the TD still works for the poor,” the actor said while appealing for support to the Mahakutami. “We are family members. The true inheritors of the TD are the people and the grassroots workers,” he said.
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