Why Did Botsa Change His Plan?

Botsa Satyanarayana is a key leader in the politics of North Andhra. However, things are not going in his favour at present. All the plans he has made are backfiring. As a result, Botsa is now in a situation where he has to change his political strategies as well. For the first time, Botsa Satyanarayana, who is currently the Leader of the Opposition in the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Council, has been seen shedding tears on public platforms on two occasions. Botsa’s nephew, Chinna Srinu, saying goodbye to the YSRCP and joining the ruling TDP has turned out to be a major political setback for Botsa. A few days ago, Botsa announced that his daughter, Botsa Anusha, would be in the race for the Vizianagaram Zilla Parishad chairperson post. Although no one in the YSRCP had officially made such an announcement until then, Botsa announced his daughter’s name and entered the race ahead of everyone else.

However, with Botsa’s nephew Chinna Srinu switching parties, the entire political equation turned upside down. Botsa had made all the arrangements to get his daughter elected as the Cheepurupalli ZPTC and make her the Zilla Parishad chairperson. However, with the changed circumstances, some people were reportedly making plans to prevent Botsa Anusha from even winning as a ZPTC, let alone becoming the Zilla Parishad chairperson. After learning about this, Botsa shifted into reverse gear. He immediately held a one-hour meeting with YSRCP chief Jagan Mohan Reddy, changed his plans and succeeded in getting his daughter Anusha appointed as the in-charge of the Bheemili Assembly constituency in Visakhapatnam district. Highly reliable sources revealed that, for this purpose, the exercise was completed by collecting public opinion through an IVRS model for the first time in the history of the YSRCP. YSRCP sources said that in this IVRS public opinion exercise, Botsa Anusha received nearly 24 per cent support, while former minister Avanthi Srinivas received 14 per cent support.

What is strange here is that the Bheemili YSRCP cadre and leaders are expressing the opinion that it would be better to give an opportunity to locals. They say that it is not right to keep bringing leaders from Vizianagaram or some other place from time to time and imposing them on the local party. Some leaders say that all those who where brought in from outside eventually left the party midway, and that such a situation would not arise if local leaders were given an opportunity. However, a key leader revealed that Botsa succeeded in getting his daughter Botsa Anusha appointed as the Bheemili in-charge using his influence. There is a discussion that, fearing that if she were fielded in the Zilla Parishad chairperson race as planned earlier and suffered defeat in her very first election contest, her political career would come to an end, he appears to have shifted her political base to Bheemili as part of a Plan B. To know how successful this experiment will be and to what extent the local leaders of Bheemili will support her in the next elections, one will have to wait until the next elections.