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The Telugu media had given highest elevation to TDP general secretary Nara Lokesh marking the closing ceremony of his Yuva Galam padayatra. Lokesh started the padayatra 226 days ago with an ambitious target of covering 4000 kilometers in 400 days.
But he broke the yatra when his father and TDP chief N Chandrababu Naidu was arrested on September 9 at Nandyal in the skill development scam. He was in Delhi for more than four weeks in the guise of holding consultations with the senior advocates of Supreme Court on getting bail for his father.
Even after his father’s release from jail on bail, Lokesh took his own time to resume his padayatra. After resuming the padayatra, he walked in two Assembly segments every day. He used to cover two Assembly segments by walking for four hours a day, two hours in the morning and two hours in the evening.
The Telugu media calls it historic padayatra and gives Lokesh the highest elevation. The Telugu media is mostly owned by the Kammas and the TDP is headed by Kammas. Except this, there is no reason why Lokesh should get such a publicity.
Lokesh did not give inspiring speeches at his padayatra. He did not pick up the greatest issue during his padayatra. He did not make any particular promise that would change the future of the state during his padayatra. Even the distance he walked is not a greater one when compared to the padayatras held by other leaders.
There is nothing to claim as record in Lokesh’s padayatra or was there anything remarkable in his walk across the state. There was no milestone in the walk and there was nothing Lokesh gained exclusively through the walk. But the Telugu media is celebrating his walk, only because he is a Kamma leader.
What is more interesting is that Lokesh is not even a match to chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy, who led his party to historic victory in 2019. While Jagan Mohan Reddy got his 151 MLAs elected to the Assembly, Lokesh lost the election from Mangalagiri in the same election.
A Kamma leader in Andhra Pradesh gets highest elevation in the Telugu media, just because he is Kamma and nothing else.
