What is happening in Andhra Pradesh?

People are dying like flies and the super hyped Chief Minister sits on his ass and none demands his head.

This is the new breed of politicians. They communicate through video conferencing, and carry expensive laptops around. They take special interest in projects envisaging thousand of crores of rupees. What they are not bothered about are the state of the ordinary people.

The number of people who died in the AP heat wave and the ongoing viral fever far exceeds the number of deaths due to SARS virus globally.

Sushma Swaraj and all the state health ministers worked over time to prove that India did not have any SARS case.

What is going on? Are we going to care more for those who fall sick of imported diseases? And those suffering from home grown diseases will be left to die on the garbage dumps that are called hospitals?

Now we know why Naxlites are so popular in rural AP. They will soon be more popular in urban areas too.

Who says Andhra Pradesh is an ideal state? Those who say so must have some weird criterion to judge the growth of a state. Are they blind?

How do you judge a state? Do you judge the growth of a state by the number of computers installed in the government offices? Do we judge the performance of the Chief Minister for his good relations with Bill Gates? Do we judge the growth of a state in terms of huge impressive looking glass houses built in the cities of that state in the style and manner of Shanghai, Tokyo, and Newark? Do you judge the quality of health care in a state by the number of expensive five star hospitals who look after the health of a few? Is a state well run if it has the premier business schools located on its soil? Is AP a good state because it hosted the national games? Is AP a great state because all its land records are computerized now?

Let Chandrababu seek answers to these questions within his soul, if he has any. What is he doing? Why does he not take a plunge into Hussein Sagar lake and commits suicide out of the shame for what is happening to poor and common people of his state? He might have pleased Bill Gates and Ambanis and Murthys but he has failed his people. Does he have any self respect or not? It is Andhra that is the killing fields of India now. The value of the life of a common Andhraite is no more than that of a housefly.

SHAME ON YOU NAIDU.