The roads of Visakhapatnam got packed with thousands and thousands of protesters who came to attend Jana Senani Pawan Kalyan’s protest programme. Moments after Pawan began his March, bigger crowds joined his march. The Vizag city has not seen such massive crowds in recent years.
Interestingly, the sea of humanity followed Pawan during the march in an expression of their support to his agitation. Pawan is demanding immediate job creation for construction workers, compensation of Rs 10,000 and resolving sand shortage.
TDP former ministers Atchannaidu and Ayyanna Pathrudu took part. The BJP AP President Kanna Laxminarayana said that his party extends its support to protests against Jagan Circar on sand issue. The BJP is organising a protest in Vijayawada tomorrow.
Ayyanna Pathrudu addressed Long March meeting. He said that even if a mad man from Vizag Mental Hospital is put in CM chair, he would do a far better job than Jaganmohan Reddy.
Anguish brought these crowds into streets: Pawan
Jana Senani Pawan Kalyan asked why construction workers are commenting suicides only in Andhra but not in Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Telangana. He mockingly said that huge crowds attended Long March not for pleasure but because of the anti-people rule of CM YS Jaganmohan Reddy. Pawan said that there are no elections now but so many people came out to protest. He told YCP leaders that the anguish and loss of livelihoods have brought these thousands of workers into the streets today to join Jana Sena protest.
Jana Senani said that he would shut down his party and go back to cinema industry if Jaganmohan Reddy created hopes of providing a poor people-friendly rule. Pawan said that it was very sad that within five months, the YCP government put lot of problems and hardships to the construction workers. He asked whether Jagan Reddy and his Ministers have any idea about ruling the state properly.
Pawan told YCP Ministers that he was an adopted son of the struggling workers’but not Chandrababu Naidu as allegedly by the YCP. Senani wondered how Jagan Circar could cripple construction industry totally which threw 35 lakh workers out of work.
