He holds the responsibilities of the president of 'Andhra Intellectual Forum'. But then, observers feel he is yet to showcase his intellectual skills. This is about Chalasani Srinivas we are talking about. He is frequently seen in TV channels' debates and discussions on various political issues.
Especially, Chalasani was quite active during Samaikyandhra movement. It was alleged that Chalasani was one among the key persons, who provoked AP NGOs and let them resort to indefinite hunger strike for 70+ days. Unfortunately, the movement ended up as a disaster with no fruitful result achieved by the NGOs under the captaincy of leaders like Ashok Babu, Chalasani and others. Moreover, the state government incurred hundreds of crores of loss with the strike. Then CM N Kiran Kumar Reddy applied a clever strategy throwing blame on union ministers and encouraging the united AP movement. As a result, he kept his position safe as a CM.
Chalasani is now alleged to have been working for the sake of ruling political party. When opposition political parties raise their voices against the government's flaws in administration, Chalasani suddenly comes into the picture and criticizes them. And today, he targeted Megastar Chiranjeevi and Power Star Pawan Kalyan. He complained that the mega brothers aren't agitating for AP's special status. Ironically, Chalasani hasn't extended his solidarity when Pawan Kalyan convened three public meets seeking special status. Moreover, Chalasani didn't join hands with Chiranjeevi and other leaders of opposition parties, when they were demanding special status. Although, he mentioned the names of Mahesh and Balakrishna, it was crystal clear that Chandrababu used Chalasani to target mega brothers. Is he worrying if the mega brothers would work together for 2019's elections?