A famous adage in Hindi goes ‘Chance Pe Dance’ wherein one waits for even the slightest chance and tries to work his way through without deserving it.
The same seems to be the case with the opposition party leaders in the Andhra Pradesh political circuit. Yes, we are talking about the duo of Chandrababu Naidu and Pawan Kalyan.
The 2019 election gave a clear mandate that people wanted a change and gave Y S Jagan an absolute majority by giving him 151 seats. However, the strategy of both Chandrababu and Pawan seems to be of the adage we spoke about. Whether it is TDP or Janasena, their confidence is, people will give them a chance in the near future as the anti incumbency is everlasting.
At the same time, they dream that they might be able to form governments with narrow margins.
The other expectation is, they will become kingmakers if they have few seats like something that had happened in Karnataka recently.
Having all these aspirations, they are hanging around. To quote an analogy, there is one mango tree, one guy will climb and cut the fruits and eat. Another guy makes friends with the one who is climbing and requests him for a fruit or two. He is Chandrababu. He never ate the fruits of power by his own might. He always had tie ups to win in his entire history.
And there is another one who just waits and simply picks the mango from the ground when the fruit falls from the tree as a windfall. He is Pawan Kalyan, just waiting to pick up the dropped mangoes of power.
Akin to that, each of the opposition parties is doing their best in their own way. The only difference is, mangoes come once a year, elections come once in 5 years. Till such time, they seem fixed to be just hanging around, making their presence on social media, so that new ones don’t come and grab their place.
It is given that people are never satisfied. At least once in a decade they change government, this is what we call anti-incumbency. The reason being, any government has to manage with the same income generated by the state. They can't fulfill all promises so naturally some sections of the people would be always disappointed. This eventually leads to change in government.
In the current scenario in AP and taking the mango story as reference, every opposition party leader is waiting only for 'chance pe dance'.
Written By Kiran Sharma
