Popular Television anchor and Tollywood character artist Syamala plunged into full time politics just before the recent assembly elections in Andhra Pradesh. She openly advocated her support to YS Jagan Mohan Reddy and YSR Congress party during her media interactions and also made harsh comments on both Chandrababu Naidu and Pawan Kalyan. With her stance against Pawa, Syamala made it very clear that she won’t be affected with losing chances in Tollywood both as an anchor and an actor.
For the loyalty displayed by Syamala, YS Jagan nominated her as one of the four official spokespersons of the party a few ago. Since then, Syamala has been very active on social media and proactively taking the fight against the Telugu Desam Party and Janasena followers. She is regularly making videos and interacting with the media to criticize the government without any fear.
YSR Congress party now needs dynamic and efficient speakers. They paid a heavy price by allowing MLAs and MPs to speak in an aggressive and abusive manner. The party can no longer encourage such a bad tradition and needs to change its strategies if it aims to make a strong comeback in the next elections. Jagan recognised Syamala’s hard work and fearless approach in addressing the issues.
In the last ten years, Roja Selvamani was the firebrand lady politician of YSRCP. But, she gained bad reputation with her foul language and bad mouth on opponents. She often crossed the line and faced the ire of the same party supporters.
After facing an ignominious defeat in 2024 elections, Roja went into political oblivion for some days. She recently made a comeback and tried to launch a counter attack against the ruling party. Unfortunately, there is not much traction for her speeches. Though she is also one of the official spokespersons along with Syamala and two others, Roja is hardly appearing before the media. She is only confined to releasing videos on buring issues.
So, Syamala is likely to projected as the key representative of the party for official briefings from now onwards. There are rumours that Jagan might reward Syamala with a bigger role in the party and may also grant her ticket in next elections. She might replace Roja’s position in the party.
