Jana Sena has finally given its response on the extreme negative exit polls given to it. Its Visakhapatnam MP candidate and CBI Ex JD Lakshminarayana has preferred to ignore these results saying that their party has already decided to fight for people’s rights regardless of victory or defeat in the elections. He asserted that they are not at all bothered by the exit polls released by the media yesterday.

Laxminarayana’s response comes amid totally adverse exit polls as some of these have given just zero MLA seats for Jana Sena. Others have given 0 to 5. These predictions go contrary to the great expectations among the fans of Pawan Kalyan about a silent wave for Jana Sena. Analysts say that it’s clear now that Jana Sena couldn’t gather much support outside of the Kapu community to which Pawan belongs. Pawan’s impact is obviously very limited among young voters.

Former CBI joint director “JD” Lakshmi Narayana is campaigning in Visakhapatnam MP constituency and his speeches are being appreciated by Vizag people.

In fact, Vizag MP constituency is considered “urban” constituency with most of the voters being educated and people have always taken rational decisions rather than emotional decisions. If they like the candidate, they don’t even bother whether he is local to the constituency or not. In fact, most of the MPs who won here are ‘non-locals’. For e.g. in 2004, Nedurumalli Janardhana Reddy won over Dr M. V. V. S. Murthi, who is local (now his grandson and Lokesh’s co-brother is contesting from the same constituency). In 2009, Daggubati Purandeswari won over local leader Palla Srinivasa Rao. It seems Vizag people prefer the leaders with no criminal or faction background. In 2014, Kambhampati Hari Babu, who was considered underdog before elections defeated Y.S. Vijayamma.

‘JD’ Lakshmi Narayana is giving some interesting analogy to Vizag people. He is saying ‘increasing land grabbing activities’ is the first step for any city to turn ‘unsafe’. He compared with Mumbai where he worked as a top police officer and told that, once land grabbing activities start, there will be more goons in the city and more illegal money in the city. Once that happens, gradually the crime rate increases in the city, he added. He told, ‘Safe Vizag’ is the primary focus and as a police officer, he knows how to curb the criminal activities that arise as consequences of land grabbing. His comments seem to be indirectly targetted at MVV Satyanarayana, YSRCP MP candidate who was earlier arrested in land grabbing case.

Vizag people are appreciating Lakshmi Narayana’s speeches and it seems they are getting convinced with his cogently put arguments.

Former CBI Joint director, who recently joined Janasena, got MP ticket from the party. He will be contesting from Visakhapatnam as MP candidate. Visakhapatnam MP seat got everyone’s attention in 2014 election as BJP candidate Haribabu sprang a surprise by winning against YS Jagan’s mother Vijayamma. However, as there is no alliance with BJP, TDP is fielding its own candidate this time. Discussion started in social media and among political circle about the chances of Lakshmi Narayana winning from here. To check that we need to see, who is contesting from other parties too.

Tollywood producer, who earlier arrested under Land Grabbing Act contesting from YSRCP:

Tollywood producer M.V.V.Satyanarayana who produced movies like Luck unnodu with Manchu Manoj, Gitanjali with Anjali and Srinivasa Reddy (Kona Venkat as the writer) is contesting from YSRCP here in 2019 LS election. M.V.V.Satyanarayana has been chosen for the ticket, within 24 hours of joining the party and that gave rise to suspicions among people that he might have given a good amount for party fund. Vizag LS seat was contested by Y.S.Vijayamma in 2014 but she lost it to BJP MP Haribabu who was considered underdog before the election.

However, MVV Satyanarayana was not only a producer but also a realtor and there have been police cases related to land trespassing on him. In fact, he was arrested by Palem police in 2016 under the AP Land Grabbing Act for allegedly encroaching on other plots by merging roads, drains and also common space. The cops picked him up from his office at Lawson’s Bay Colony. At that time police told to media that MVV Satyanarayana involved in the construction of a gated community opposite the ACA-VDCA cricket stadium. He had purchased 38 out of88 plots spread over survey numbers 357/1 and 357/2 in the panchayat-approved layout and had also performed Bhoomi pooja a few days ago before starting construction. But on the eve of the inauguration, his firm encroached into the adjacent plots and erected hoardings and other publicity boards making it look like those areas also belong to them, said the police. Upon the complaint by one of the owners of adjacent plots, Police arrested him. However, at that time, Satyanarayana alleged that TDP president and MLA Kala Venkata Rao was behind his arrest.

Son-in-law of Nandamuri Balakrishna from TDP:

Sri Bharat, the grandson of senior TDP leader late M.V.V.S. Murti and president of GITAM University, is contesting from Visakhapatnam parliament constituency as TDP candidate. He is the son-in-law of Nandamuri Balakrishna and co-brother-in-law of Nara Lokesh. M.V.V.S. Murti who passed away a few months back has very good name in this area but TDP giving many tickets to own family is actually turning out to be a negative point. CBN’s son Lokesh, CBN’s brother-in-law Bala Krishna already contesting for assembly.

Lakshmi Narayana from Janasena:

Janasena has very good prospects in this area. During 2009 also, PRP got decent number of assembly seats from this area. Moreover, it has significant chunk of Kapu population. More than all this, Vizag is considered “urban” Lok Sabha constituency as it has more educated voters and Lakshmi Narayana has very good image among these educated voters. Pawan Kalyan contesting for assembly from the same district also is expected to have positive impact.

So, definitely, JD Lakshmi Narayana has very good chances of winning. But politics is always unpredictable and dynamic. We will have to wait and see whether Lakshmi Narayana will win as MP from here.

Many people in AP may not recognize if you say VV Lakshmi narayana, but if you say JD Lakshmi Narayana, they immediately recognize him as former CBI Joint Director Lakshmi Narayana, who investigated Disproportionate Assets case of YS Jagan. His role (Joint Director, in short J.D) became his surname. He has now submitted his resignation to the post of Additional Director General of Police in Mumbai.

He is 1990 batch IPS officer from Maharashtra cadre. He investigated many high profile cases including Satyam scam and Jagan’s cases. Some reports say he is resigning citing the reasons like “transfer” that he did not like but most of the people feel he is resigning to join Politics. Social media is agog with the news of him entering into the politics and and joining Janasena since last one year. But many rubbished it as one more rumor created by gossip mongers in social media. However,now it seems the social media gossip is turning true at least till the part that he is joining politics. Whether he joins Janasena or some other party, only time will tell. But whichever party he joins, it will be definitely embarrassment to YSRCP and Jagan as he has complete information including technical details of the case.

We will have to wait and see how his second innings will be.