Hyderabad: Till last month they were ministers, yesterday they were former ministers, but tomorrow they will be doctors, advocates, agriculturists and so on.
After the rout of the Congress in Seemandhra in the recent general election, party leaders are planning to concentrate on their personal lives and work since there will be no major political activity till the next general election.
Former Union minister K. Chiranjeevi wants to return to the film world, which was much kinder to him, and fulfil his desire to act in his 150th film.
Former Union minister Killi Kruparani and her husband Killi Rammohan Rao are well-known doctors and owned a nursing home in Srikakulam. They are planning to go back to their medical practice, as are another husband-wife team — that of former primary education minister S. Sailaja Nath and his wife.
Former state minister Kondru Murali wants to spend more time running the educational institutions he owns. APCC president N. Raghuveera Reddy is a son of the soil and wants to go back to the field, as it were. He went to vote on a bullock-cart to emphasise his farmer origins.
Former minister Dokka Manikya Vara Prasad, who is an advocate, is planning to practise in the Supreme Court. He has decided to enrol his name in the Supreme Court Bar Association. He said that his main activity will still be politics, but he will also practise in the Supreme Court.
Former MLC Gidugu Rudra Raju has already enrolled his name in the Supreme Court Bar Association and wants to shift to Delhi. He too wants to continue in politics. As a member of Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi’s core team, Mr Rudra Raju wants to shift his activities to Delhi.
Former finance minister Anam Ram Narayana Reddy and his brother, former MLA Anam Vivekananda Reddy may retire from politics, as the family already has a political presence in the form of Mr Anam Ram’s brother and Mr Anam Vivekananda Reddy’s son, who contested in the Assembly elections.
