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Why Pawan & CM meeting on July 31?
The encounter between AP Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu and Jana Sena Party leader and actor Pawan Kalyan scheduled on July 31 in Amaravati sparked a debate over their love-hate relationship in political circles.
Amaravati/ Visakhapatnam: The encounter between AP Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu and Jana Sena Party leader and actor Pawan Kalyan scheduled on July 31 in Amaravati sparked a debate over their love-hate relationship in political circles.
Will it be win-win for both or will it help Naidu take the stride in his favour? This has become a hot topic in both the camps of the TDP and the JSP. Sources in the JSP told The Hans India that the programme is purely meant to let an expert team from Harvard Medical School appraise the CM of the gravity of kidney ailments in the Uddanam region with a request for liberal funding from the government for their medical aid.
However, it is unlikely to miss politics in course of personal interaction between the two leaders after a long time.
Even as the JSP sources termed the programme as purely apolitical, they said in the same breath that Pawan is expected to raise special category status issue and exemption of handlooms from the GST regime.
The team is scheduled to make a presentation to Naidu after a field visit and interaction with the kidney patients in the Uddanam area of Srikakulam district on July 29.
The Harvard Medical School is working closely with Pawan Kalyan to set up a world-class kidney research institute in the Uddanam region, according to Dr Joseph Bonventre, Chief of the Renal Division, Brigham Women’s Hospital, Harvad Medical School, USA. Moreover, the doctors’ team would spend Rs 30 crore for taking various activities to protect the people of Uddanam from kidney-related diseases.
A close associate of Pawan Kalyan said initially it was proposed to hold a programme involving CM and the experts only. Later, Naidu was said to have favoured the participation of Pawan Kalyan also.
The gap between the TDP-BJP ruling combine and its election ally Pawan has widened in the recent past in view of the former’s stand on the special category status and acquisition of lands for the capital in Amaravati by enforcing the Land Acquisition Act.
Besides, the JSP leader minced no words to assail the NDA government over cow vigilantism and to espouse the cause of secular values which allegedly came under threat during the BJP regime.
The gulf obviously forced Pawan Kalyan to distance himself away from the ruling camp and get close to the Left parties. In an interaction with the CPI leaders sometime back, the JSP leader said he had no reservations to work with the opposition parties on public issues like the pollution hazards caused by an aqua food park at Bhimavaram and pharma industry in East Godavari district.
In spite of his strident campaign against the TDP-NDA alliance partners, is Pawan still considered as a comrade in arms by them? “Why not? We view him as our trusted and constructive friend. Our government has decided to offer pensions to kidney patients only after his suggestions,” said TDP former minister and MLC Dokka Manikya Varaprasad.
