When K Rosaiah was the Finance Minister in the Y S Rajasekhara Reddy cabinet, everybody used to admire him for his witty retorts against the opposition parties, particularly Telugu Desam Party. There used to be appreciation even from the media gallery in the assembly.
But after becoming the Chief Minister, the same person looks completely pale and his remarks are being received with a pinch of salt. Media persons are getting irritated at his irresponsible statements and meaningless retorts.
On Wednesday, Rosaiah hurriedly called for a press conference in the afternoon to condemn the attacks on Telugu film industry by the pro-Telangana agitators. “One can understand if the Telangana agitators stopped screening of films of Allu Arjun, because his father Chiranjeevi had opposed Telangana. But why did they attack the shootings of Mahesh Babu and Jr NTR? Did they or their fathers say anything against Telangana?” he asked.
This has created an impression that Rosaiah was not opposing the attacks on the films of Allu Arjun films or Mohan Babu. It appears he was creating a scare in the Telugu film industry by indirectly referring to its threat to go back to Chennai.
On Tuesday night, too, Rosaiah made a similar statement on the flight of capital from industrial sector in Hyderabad. Being the head of the state, his responsibility is to instil confidence among the industrialists and film makers, but not to scare them. Nor should he oppose the Telangana agitation on the pretext of slowdown of industrialisation. He has to behave like a statesman. Unfortunately, Rosaiah proved a failure in this aspect.
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