Lakshmi Parvathi, devotee turned second wife of NTR (Where are they now?)

He was his first love. He was Telugu's big screen and she was a 16-year-old student. As for many Telugus, N.T. Rama Rao was a demi-god for her. She wrote a poem in 1980 describing it as a star in the sky that remains inaccessible to someone who is on the earth and who desires it.

But they were meant one to the other. Lakshmi Parvathy met NTR for the first time in 1991 with a request to write her biography. It was so that began the love story, which culminated in their marriage a year later. This resulted in a series of cataclysmic events, whose reverberations are still felt today.

NTR, the founder of the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) and former chief minister of Andhra Pradesh being 70 years old, he had lost his first wife Basvatarakam to cancer. Lakshmi Parvathi, lecturer and author of the city of Narsraopet in Guntur district, was almost half her age and separated from her first husband.

At the time, NTR was short of power after two terms as chief minister and a brief flirtation. with national politics before returning to the state.

Lakshmi's life took a dramatic turn in 1994, when NTR brought the TDP back to power with a record majority. She was hailed as "Lucky Parvathi" who helped him to regain fame. However, it did not last long.

In August 1995, the NTR children from his first wife, led by his son-in-law, N. Chandrababu Naidu, organized a revolt and seized power, citing increasing interference in the party and the loss of power. Administration of Lakshmi Parvathi.

Five months later, NTR died of cardiac arrest and the situation was bleak for Lakshmi Parvathi. She vowed to take revenge on Naidu for taking over her husband, but without any support, she fell into political oblivion.

Even after two decades, her only wish is to see the political fall of the man that she believes is responsible for the premature death of NTR. "I believe that his political end is approaching and that whenever that happens, I will make my wish by plunging the ashes of my husband into Ganga and Cauvery," Parvathi told IANS.

Currently with the YSR Congress Party but not active in politics, she is only praying for JS Jaganmohan Reddy to humiliate Naidu in the elections just ended. "I have no ambition for power. Parvathi

I think I would never have wanted to hold a position. She believes that "Lakshmi's NTR," a film directed by renowned filmmaker Ram Gopal Varma, has shed light on her story.

Varma has described it as the most intense film A dramatic love story so far.

"Yes. There was so much love between me and NTR. He tried to protect me until the end, "said Parvathi.

Lakshmi said, "I came every Saturday and Sunday to Hyderabad (for working on the biography). One day, he suddenly asked me, "Do you want to marry me?" I did not know what to say because I was separated from my first husband and lived with my parents. I also had a son to look after. I looked for a period of one month and then I agreed to marry him. "

They married secretly in 1992 and it was in 1993 that NTR publicly announced it at a film event in Tirupati.

Lakshmi thinks that while". they enjoyed a happy joy. "Married, her family members became jealous of her and began the conspiracies." They did not allow us to live in peace and stabbed in the backs of the members NTR's family shocked and claimed his life.It was a planned murder, "she added.

She complains of having met her "god" very late and having very little time to spend with him.

"All I have today are her memories, her portraits and her busts, including one in my pooja room, I always adore her," said the woman who tries to overcome sorrow through writing.