With Jagan in jail, can Vijayamma-Sharmila fight to the finish?

In December 1995, on the eve of Lakshmi Parvathi’s maiden public appearance at a meeting in Madanapalle, her doting husband, NT Rama Rao, a veteran public performer, was giving her detailed instructions as though he were preparing her to take her screen test. I, a young reporter, daunted by tales of the infamous NTR temper, watched  silently, as NTR gave her tips on what to say and how to say it. NTR had been dethroned by Chandrababu Naidu in August that year and he wanted his wife to make a splash politically. That meeting in Chittoor district was to be her debut.

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