Frankly speaking, there is a caste feeling and caste-based selection process and promotion in almost all the political parties. If Janasena has the least (but we can’t say there is no caste feeling at all), other parties have a bit more, and YS Jagan led YSR Congress seems to have the most of such feeling.
Already there is a buzz that Jagan has backstabbed his own “BC Gharjana” promises by not allotting the promised percentage of tickets to contestants from Backward Castes. At the same time, while Reddy community is said to be giving him unanimous support in Rayalaseema region, one wonders it which way other OCs are tilting. And for that, it looks like Jagan came up with a sketch to woo them.
Take the talks of Posani, Chinni Krishna or Kona Venkat, there is not a single minute from them where they don’t talk about their caste. “I am a Kamma, but I don’t support Naidu,” says Posani. “For the first time I’m revealing that my surname is Akula and I am a Kapu, but I will support Jagan, not Pawan,” said Chinni Krishna. “I am Brahmin who reads Gayari Mantram daily and today I could proudly say that Jagan is a huge sympathizer of Brahmins like his father,” said Kona Venkat. We wonder why all these brand ambassadors of YS Jagan will utter only ‘caste’ based comments.
As the likes of KA Paul are snatching away Jagan’s SC-ST vote banks, it seems YSR Congress is trying to woo all the OCs with these casteist comments from the likes of Posani, Chinni Krishna and Kona Venkat. Do they think that OC vote banks will really sway that way? We will know in the coming months.