Gone are the days where the politicians used to endure criticism of the opponents. When Chandrababu Naidu and his allied media kept on writing cooked up articles, the then Chief Minister YS Rajasekhara Reddy used to bring those dailies to the Assembly to give explanations to the public and expose the cruel mind of TDP media.
But now in the reign of YS Jagan Mohan Reddy, the situation has totally changed. If TDP pokes, then YCP hits hard. If CBN slaps, then YS Jagan breaks the head. If the yellow media fires a bullet, then YCP brigade blasts a bomb.
It is known that TDP survived all these decades with its allied media brainwashing the people by pumping in artificial hype to Chandrababu and continuously throwing cold water on the opponents. The practice of yellow media and TDP is to throw the filth on opponents and laugh until they attempt to clean the dirt.
The TDP is going on in the same age-old style. Recently, iTDP started a campaign with a tweet, "The father who revolted died in a chopper crash. The uncle who revolted died in the bathroom. The disappointed sister left the house. The upset mother also left. Very soon the dictator will run away to London betraying the blue brigade".
It is needless to explain the tweet. Before it started to spread, the YSRCP olks released a counter- "The father in law who revolted died of backstab. The brother in law who was betrayed died in a road accident. The disappointed aunt died by hanging. The upset brother was confined to iron chains. The father and son duo would run away to Singapore after betraying the yellow batch".
This shocking reply from YSRCP was not seen in earlier days. TDP wishes to spread a lie in the society and make people believe. YSRCP is also using the same method to attack but in a more vehement manner.
It is also known that Pothula Suneetha of YSRCP pulled the names of Brahmani and Bhuvaneshwari as part of a liquor syndicate as the iTDP did something similar maligning YS Bharati's name a couple of days before. YSRCP seems to have understood the way to tackle filthy propaganda by TDP groups.
Kiran Sharma