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Pawan to enter poll arena
Power star and Jana Sena Party leader Pawan Kalyan will no longer remain a backroom boy in the State politics. He will enter the electoral arena in the upcoming general elections in 2019.
Anantapur: Power star and Jana Sena Party leader Pawan Kalyan will no longer remain a backroom boy in the State politics. He will enter the electoral arena in the upcoming general elections in 2019.
Pawan stated this in unequivocal terms, clearing the air of speculation over his political plans at a massive rally here on Thursday.
The JSP leader played the ‘king maker’ in the last elections, helping NDA and the TDP come to power. Pawan however did not specify if he would go it alone or forge an alliance with like-minded parties.
Highlights:
- Ready to sacrifice film career
- Flays BJP-TDP for deceiving people on SCS
- Says no enmity with Jagan, CM
But he expressed his strong resolve to enter politics full time even though it meant ‘sacrificing’ his lucrative film career. “Win or lose, we will face the election in the interest of the people at large”, he said, buoyed by the presence of a large number of youth at his rally.
The atmosphere at the college grounds was electrifying and slogans eulogising Pawan Kalyan rent the air even as he arrived at the meeting venue at around 2.30 pm.
The gathering constituted mostly of film buffs, students and youth who yelled at the top of their voice. Pawan’s announcement on taking a plunge into elections was lustily cheered by his fans.
The Jana Sena chief flayed the ruling BJP government and particularly Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the Centre for promising Special Category Status to the State before elections and going back after coming to power.
These politicians speak in people's language when they come to ask for votes but when it came to realisation of their promises; they speak in intellectual jargon only to deceive people.
Reacting to Union minister M Venkaiah Naidu’s statement that Special Category Status is a closed chapter, Pawan Kalyan said if he let it be a closed the chapter, we will begin a new chapter with our entry into the election fray and teach these leaders a lesson.
How can Chief Minister Nara Chandrababu Naidu welcome the package as an overwhelming offer which was nothing but a part of the AP Reorganisation Act.
He said special package and Special Status were the twin promises made by the NDA government but not one being a substitute for the other. Moreover, the special package does not have legal sanctity and what they had given was a mere announcement with no legal safeguards, he said.
He said that he has no enmity with opposition leader Y S Jagan and even with the CM. In the same breath, he stated that he will not compromise with any one on public issues.
He said the Jana Sena will have its office in Rayalaseema in 2017 and in 2019 it will fight the polls with a main focus on the backward Rayalaseema region.
Though he does not hail from Rayalaseema, he would always stand by the people of the region and particularly with Anantapur district which is caught in a spiral of drought spells.
Pawan stated that he supported the BJP-TDP combination believing that funds would flow for development of the truncated State.
“But all such hopes were belied in the last solution, he added. He demanded allotment of 100 tmc ft of water by all means and change the destiny of the district.
The Jana Sena chief’s hour-long speech was well received by the people.
