Indian people love politics, death

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It’s the weekend before a holiday so my research for this article consisted of going, “Yeah that sounds like something,” so excuse me if I make any error here. In short, some guy named Y S Rajasekhara Reddy was pariliamentary representative for an Indian province but he died in a plane crash. But his fans were so passionate that they decided to kill themselves, in protest of a world without him. Logical.

rajasekhara reddy satyam 313 Indian people love politics, death

More than 60 people across Andhra Pradesh have died of shock or committed suicide after the death of their chief minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy, prompting his MP son Y S Jaganmohan Reddy to appeal to his late father’s admirers to be patient and brave.

“I appeal to all of you to be patient and be brave in this hour of tragedy. He (YSR) wanted to see a smile on the faces of all and if you resort to such things (suicide) this will hurt him,” said Jaganmohan, trying to hard to control his tears.

“I request you not to commit suicide,” said Jaganmohan, who was elected to Lok Sabha from Kadapa in recent elections and is being seen by many as the next chief minister. The appeal before the camera was telecast on all Telugu television channels.

That’s pretty amazing to yield that kind of power over people’s lives that they kill themselves just because you ceased to exist. I can relate though. I’ve never told you guys this, but I have soothsaying powers, meaning I can see the future. And I have seen my own death. I’m not entirely sure how I get to a point in life in which I die, suffocated in a vat of fudge, but I’m pretty sure it’ll be suitably epic. And I can only assume that the future I saw immediately after my death means people were heavily impacted. Dozens of people high-fiving at the funeral, chest bumping like the 1994 New York Knicks. I must have really made a difference in their lives.

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