I am also a Kapu community person. It is there in my certificates. My death certificate will also carry Kapu caste name. This is how CM Jagan’s most trusted MP Vijayasai Reddy went on desperately speaking at a Kapu ‘Vanamahotsavam’ garden party. The event was held at Kambalakonda near Visakhapatnam. Why has Vijayasai, being a Reddy, attended an event of other caste? Leaders of all parties especially Jana Sena would take part there. This was what became a debatable point. Pawan Kalyan fans and TDP sympathisers took objection to top Reddy leaders of YCP coming there. They went on sloganeering ‘Jai Kapu, Jai Kapu’. Minister Avanti Srinivas tried to pacify the angry crowd but it was no use.
Despite the anti-YCP mood, Vijayasai Reddy remained there and addressed the gathering along with others. He tried hard to tell the Kapu gathering that he is one of them. Indeed, it is true that Reddys’ certificates mostly carry Kapu caste name. But in common public opinion, Reddys are treated as a separate caste. Whatever, non-YCP Kapu speakers took their sweet revenge by raising injustices being done to their caste under Jagan Circar. When they asked why YCP opposed Kapu reservations, the Minister interfered and requested not to politicise a community gettogether. Whatever, Vijayasai’s caste calculations backfired very badly.
