YSR’s chopper goes missing
Update -
Tragedy strikes. YSR killed in a helicopter crash. While most probably the finance minister, K Rosaiah or another congress leader of similar seniority will take charge, it would be good, if the central government can ensure the safety of the common man in the city while ‘congress workers’ and other followers are prone to the common rampage emotions in moments of distress like this. We have lost a leader, no meaning in losing our peace – I hope we mourn in peace.
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Multiple reports since the past several hours, about the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, going missing and remaining out of contact.
A short list of the most possible theories in my view -
- Technical Snag in the chopper – Quite likely that there may have been a technical snag that led to landing in some remote area. Sukhoi jets, and ISRO satellite imagery have not helped yet in locating any chopper or chopper debris (the unthinkable). Some reports about the airworthiness of the chopper have been put forward but immediately argued against.
- Factionism – A term used only for that specific regions of Andhra, where people of the same community ( despite being same region, religion), fight for superiority or for land and resource domination of that region. YSR, before entering into politics was a known faction leader. Typical faction leaders are known for violent clashes along with a band of private armies. The groups are known for retaining long lost violent memories of violence and bounce back after generations have passed. Factionism is one of the largely glorified subjects of Telugu Cinema.
- Naxalism – Another ill that bogs down some regions of South India, armed communist oriented people in the tribal areas, with ideologies of revolution and struggle against governments. They have often attacked high profile targets including the ex-CM on a religious trip to Tirupati 8-10 years ago. The target was missed, though there were a couple of bodyguard deaths and some serious injuries to the ex-CM, NCB Naidu. This was followed by a violent suppression of naxal leaders who were hunted down and killed by security forces. Naxalism is one evil, that is just short of terrorism but has not been taken care of for several decades now. Certain areas in AP, including some residential colleges are prone to public preaching by the red army that the government tends to ignore.
- Terrorism – Most terrorist activities are usually in and around Hyderabad, the main city. This does make it highly improbable, but is on the list because of the precise reason that security forces may have never considered a terrorist threat in the sub-urban / rural areas of AP.
- It’s all one big communication mistake – the last theory with the least probability is that, the CM made a safe landing somewhere but could not get back in contact because of a minor injury/communication issues. However because of the time that has lapsed since he was first missing reported, this is also a very unlikely theory. Whatever the case may be, or a combination of more than one theories above, especially the first one, makes it really hard to accept that a CM of the state of AP has been missing for nearly an entire day and is still safe out there. The weather, from what I understand, isn’t helping much and the search and rescue operations are not entirely affective in such weather. But keeping fingers crossed and hoping that YSR returns safe and sound. Every passing hour is bringing a bad news closer to his party workers and constituents. Hoping things turn out OK for him…
Sakshi TV is sporadically online with the latest news in Telugu, the news channel is owned by Rajashekar Reddy’s son – Jagan and will probably have reliable news updates as soon as they confirm it.
Tags: Andhra CM, chopper crash, factionism, missing, Telugu, YSR
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