REPORTERS’ DIARY : CHOPPER CHODO, BUS NIKALO

Election campaigning style differs from neta to neta and is often also a reflection of their experience. First time Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy must have realized it belatedly. The Chief Minister recently shared with scribes how campaigning in this hot summer was difficult even for star campaigners like him. “People think it is easy travelling by helicopter. But it is even more difficult in this hot summer — very difficult”, he exclaimed. The Chief Minister had used a chopper during the Assembly poll campaign too, but was comfortable then because of winter. Realising the summer heat, Revanth’s bête noire and former CM K Chandrasekhar Rao neither used a chopper nor campaigned in the open. He simply sat in an AC bus for campaing stops during his Bus Yatra. He did more than 97 meetings in the Assembly elections using helicopter. Call it the consequence of the outcome of Assembly polls or whatever; his feet are literally on the ground now.