There is a sense of deja vu among political observers with the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) losing the Assembly polls and the plot after ruling the newly-created State for nearly 10 years. It didn’t matter that its tallest leader K.Chandrasekhar Rao was the architect of the Telangana movement that saw the creation of the State in June 2014.
On Sunday evening, a number of IT employees took to social media to share their disappointment with the election results. Party working president K.T. Rama Rao, in his speech after the party’s defeat, acknowledged the grief among his followers and advised them to ‘accep things with equanimity’.
Two decades earlier, there was another darling of the media and IT world — N. Chandrababu Naidu who met a similar fate. He styled himself as the Chief Executive Officer of the State and hobnobbed with IT mavens and business leaders. Mr. Naidu showcased the State’s IT prowess with the HiTech City being inaugurated in 1998. Mr. Naidu inaugurated what he called SMART (simple, moral, accountable, responsible and transparent) government. He hired management consultancy firm McKinsey to create a Vision-2020 document with the stated aim of: “My Vision is to make AP the foremost State in ten years time in terms of standard of living of my people… through adoption of Information Technology in all aspects of development and governance.”
