Politics is not for the weak or faint-hearted. One needs an extremely thick skin to take even the most humiliating defeat in stride and move on with a laugh.
The recent Assembly elections were shocking in that none of the top Congress guns barring Uttam Kumar Reddy could manage to win in their respective constituencies.
Komatireddy Venkat Reddy, Revanth Reddy, Jana Reddy, DK Aruna, Sunitha Lakshma Reddy, Chinna Reddy, Damodar Reddy, Ponnam Prabhakar, Shabbir Ali, Jeevan Reddy, Sarve Satyanarayana, Padmavathi Reddy (wife of Uttam Kumar Reddy), Ramesh Rathod, Mallu Ravi and P Sampath Kumar are some of the prominent names that tasted defeat in the recent polls.
However, unfazed, they are now looking to the forthcoming Lok Sabha polls to retrieve their lost pride and stay in the reckoning politically.
Since the Lok Sabha polls are not being held simultaneously with the Assembly polls, these leaders feel that a different set of parameters will dictate the outcome of the Lok Sabha polls.
Revanth Reddy, Chinna Reddy and DK Aruna are believed to be interested in the Parliamentary seat from Mahabubnagar whereas P Sampath Kumar and Mallu Ravi are eyeing the Nagarkurnool seat.
Sarve Satyanarayana is interested in Malkajgiri, Jeevan Reddy and Ponnam Prabhakar in Karimnagar, Komatireddy Venkat Reddy and Padmavathi in Nalgonda, Damodar Reddy and Ponnala in Bhuvanagiri and Shabbir Ali in Zaheerabad.
Today where crores of rupees are being spent even for municipal elections, it requires tremendous financial and political clout to contest back-to-back elections for the Assembly and Parliament.
Imagine the kind of money that needs to be spent and the political blessings behind you. However, the above leaders have both in plenty and that’s why, they are raring to go.
Will their fate be any different in the coming months?