Maha singer makes all forget Babli

Nizamabad, July 25: Music knows no boundaries, and this was recently reaffirmed when a young Maharashtrian singer, Laxmi, and her troupe, enthralled the Nizamabad voters with her lilting songs.
Even though Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh are fighting over the Babli project, Laxmi and her troupe from Parbhani in Maharashtra made the youth at a Congress election rally at Shradhanand Gunj dance to her racy numbers with a mix of both Hindi and Marathi songs; a large Marathi-speaking populace resides in this area.
The Congress hired the troupe for the election rally of the APCC president, Mr D. Srinivas. “We hail from Parbhani in Maharashtra and have been campaigning in Nizamabad for the past 10 days, and the response is good,” said Laxmi.
Dressed in a typical Maharashtrian sari with ghungroos like the ones worn by the Telangana folk singers, the troupe played on the T-sentiment with perfection.
Laxmi even created a song in praise of Mr Srinivas with both Marathi and Hindi lyrics. It went something like, “Netha pyra hai, sab ka hamara hai. Srinivas la vote dala (the leader is lovely and belongs to all of us; vote for Srinivas).” In addition to the performers, the presence of actor Srihari lit up the environs even more.
Several parties are hiring entertainers to help their campaigns. This is perhaps the first time that the Congress, the TD, the BJP and the TRS have utilised their services to keep the audiences in good humour.
In fact, the TRS hired folk singers to sing songs in praise of Telangana and her martyrs. It even lead a Telangana Bonalu procession under the leadership of Ms Kavita from Telangana Jagruthi.
However, except the Congress, no other party roped in actors for campaigning. But, the actor/comedian, Babu Mohan, is contesting the elections from Siddipet.
While the TRS organised huge public meetings in all the constituencies and conducted padayatras, the Congress and the TD preferred to focus on door-to-door campaigns, rallies and padayatras.

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