After lying low for several months since her entry into the Congress, film star Vijayashanthi made her first political statement saying the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has not understood the aspirations of self-respect and identity that Southern India seeks in the Indian political landscape.
Taking to ‘X’ (formerly Twitter), she questioned Union Minister G. Kishan Reddy’s opinion that Telangana doesn’t need the Bharat Rashtra Samiti (BRS) questioning its very existence in Telangana. She said politics in South India has always been led by the public sentiments for self-esteem and it has been continuing for long.
For people who don’t understand this should remember how the people responded to earlier generation leaders like MG Ramachandran, Karunanidhi, N.T. Rama Rao, Ramakrishna Hegde and Jayalalitha. A similar response is seen in the existence of Bharat Rashtra Samiti (BRS) and Y.S.R. Congress Party (YSRCP) and this aspect needs to analysed.
