Not day-after-day goes as deliberate, particularly if it’s a Friday. That is the day when a number of big-budget releases bomb. Friday the thirteenth of December was to be a giant day for the Congress. Priyanka Gandhi Vadra was to make her debut speech in Parliament, and the social gathering was anticipating fireworks and resonance. Nonetheless, by noon, it was Allu Arjun and Hyderabad Police’s wildfire that overshadowed Priyanka Gandhi’s speech. Telangana, simply to remind ourselves, is headed by the Congress.
Talking throughout a debate on the Structure, Priyanka Gandhi attacked the BJP-led authorities and Prime Minister Narendra Modi. There have been a number of quotable quotes in her speech as there was an echo of her brother and the Chief of Opposition in Lok Sabha.
Rahul Gandhi discovered her speech higher than his maiden speech. “It was an exquisite speech. Higher than my maiden speech,” he mentioned.
“Vastly impressed by Priyanka Gandhi’s maiden speech in Parliament. Cherished her taking down BJP’s obsession with Nehru by asking them to defend what was taking place within the current,” mentioned Congress MP Shashi Tharoor, heaping reward on her.
Congress members have been ready for Priyanka Gandhi to make an electoral debut and develop into a voice in Parliament. This was the day they might have liked to focus on.
The headlines had been, nevertheless, stolen by what was unfolding 1,500km away in Hyderabad. The capital of Congress-ruled Telangana.
The division that oversees legislation and order, and in impact the police, in Telangana is headed by Chief Minister Revanth Reddy.
Hyderabad Police landed on the residence of Telugu celebrity Allu Arjun to arrest him. The case was associated to a stampede wherein a lady was killed on December 4 throughout the premiere of Allu Arjun’s Pushpa 2: The Rule.
“Regulation will take its personal due course, and no one will intervene within the investigation of the case,” Revanth Reddy mentioned in an official assertion.
Amid the controversy of police overapplying the legislation and making an attempt to cowl up for their very own lapses, it grabbed all the eye.
All information cameras turned in the direction of Hyderabad as a five-hour intense drama first noticed Allu Arjun being arrested, then despatched to 14-day judicial custody and finally the Telangana Excessive Court docket granting him interim bail.
Politicians of all hues within the twin Telugu states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana jumped into motion in Hyderabad.
The BJP, Jagan Mohan Reddy’s YSRCP and Ok Chandrashekar Rao’s BRS criticised the Hyderabad Police motion and attacked the Revanth Reddy-led authorities.
Union Minister of the BJP, Bandi Sanjay Kumar mentioned that Allu Arjun deserved higher remedy, whereas BRS Working President KT Rama Rao condemned the Congress authorities’s actions, accusing them of treating the star like a “frequent felony”.
Former Andhra Pradesh CM Jagan Mohan Reddy criticised the arrest of actor Allu Arjun, when he requested if it was truthful to carry the actor completely accountable for the stampede.
Whereas hashtags associated to Allu Arjun and Pushpa 2 trended on social media, the recent matter of dialogue on nationwide tv was whether or not the police had overstepped their boundaries.
Whereas the key phrase ‘allu arjun’ is trending on Google India at the #1 place with 2 lakh plus search quantity, ‘priyanka gandhi’ couldn’t make it to the Prime 100. Clearly, the thrill on-line was over the arrest of the Telugu star, not the Wayanad MP’s maiden speech in Lok Sabha.
If “Flower nahi Hearth” was the superhit dialogue of Pushpa 1, Allu Arjun’s Pushpa 2 noticed him turning into “Hearth nahi Wildfire”. That is the wildfire that the police in Congress-ruled Telangana tried to grab from the Telugu celebrity. That wildfire ended up overshadowing Priyanka Gandhi’s maiden speech in Parliament on Friday.
