Young Stars To Head Youth Wings

Now that film star, Chiranjeevi, broke the silence about the political party, the movement in political circles took high speed in the State. The ruling Congress, the Opposition Telugu Desam, have already started finding suitable candidates to challenge the film popularity of Chiranjeevi and his candidates.

The Telugu Desam president, N Chandrababu Naidu, had roped in the family of NTR and is actively considering naming Junior NTR as its Telugu Yuvatha president. Though the family members, including Balakrishna, Harikrishna, Kalyanram and Junior NTR, was scheduled to get into active politics during the by-elections in Telangana, they did not come out as their positions in the party were yet to finalise. According to the sources, the family has been insisting on giving the post of the president to Balakrishna and Telugu Yuvatha president to Junior NTR. However, Chandrababu Naidu had agreed to give the Yuvatha post to Junior NTR but was reluctant to miss the party president post as it would leave him powerless.

The family had suggested that Naidu may continue to be the president, but give an equal post to Balakrishna as that would make the film star’s hands stronger. While the position of Balakrishna in the party is yet to be decided, the TD boss had almost finalised the candidature of Junior NTR as the Yuvatha president. The decision, according to the party sources, was taken in the light of the announcement from the Chiru camp that it would make power star, Pawan Kalyan as the party’s youth wing president. Pawan Kalyan has greater image among the youth and Chiru’s camp is sure of keeping its youth force intact with Pawan Kalyan.

Having heard of the two developments – Junior NTR for Telugu Yuvatha and Pawan Kalyan for Chiru’s Youth wing – the ruling Congress is actively considering the possibility of naming Prince Mahesh Babu for the Youth Congress. Chief Minister Dr Y S Rajasekhar Reddy had already held initial talks with Mahesh Babu’s father, Krishna, two weeks ago when the later met him. In fact, it was one of the reasons why the State government had delegated the land to Padmalaya Studios owned by Krishna.

If this happens, the Congress would have Mahesh Babu heading the Youth Congress, followed by Junior NTR heading the Telugu Yuvatha and Pawan Kalyan heading the youth wing of Chiru’s party. With the three major parties having the young stars heading their youth wings, the BJP would be forced to seek the help of Rebel Star, Krishnam Raju to allow Prabhas to head the BJP’s youth wing – Yuva Morcha – to strike a balance with other parties.