Andhra Pradesh tourism Minister R.K. Roja has dared actor and Jana Sena Party leader Pawan Kalyan to contest the elections against Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy.

She alleged that Pawan Kalyan floated Jana Sena Party (JSP) for the benefit of Telugu Desam Party (TDP) president N. Chandrababu Naidu.

“First you get elected as councillor and MLA and then talk about winning Assembly elections,” she told Pawan Kalyan, who claimed two days ago that JSP will sweep the next Assembly elections.

Roja, herself a former actor, launched a bitter attack on Pawan Kalyan and remarked that the film personalities were hanging their heads in shame because of his conduct.

She said people in the state were laughing at Pawan’s prediction that YSR Congress Party (YSRCP) will win only 67 seats in the 175-member Assembly in the next elections.

On JSP leader’s statement that his support to the TDP in 2014 was to safeguard the interests of the state post bifurcation, Roja alleged that the actor floated the party for the sake of TDP and its leader Chandrababu Naidu.

She alleged that Pawan Kalyan postponed his yatra because TDP general secretary and Chandrababu Naidu’s son Nara Lokesh also postponed his padyatra.

Pawan had campaigned for the TDP-BJP alliance in 2014 elections, but stayed away from contesting the polls. He later developed differences with the TDP and BJP and targeted them for failing to safeguard the state’s interests.

After severing ties with both TDP and BJP, Pawan’s party fought 2019 polls in alliance with Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and the Left parties. However, YSRCP stormed to power by winning 151 seats. JSP bagged just one seat and Pawan himself had to taste defeat from both the seats he contested.

Pawan said that the JSP contested elections in 2019 to become a strong political party in the state. “We tasted defeat in the elections, which is quite normal in politics. I am not discouraged and will not go anywhere,” he said.

Pawan, who is younger brother of megastar Chiranjeevi, once again joined hands with the BJP in 2020. He recently declared that he plans to bring all the opposition parties together to avoid division of anti-YSRCP votes in the 2024 polls.

Jana Sena chief Pawan Kalyan had decided to celebrate his 54th birthday in the midst of his party activists and the people of Ippatam village near Mangalagiri in Guntur district. He would join the celebrations at 10.30 in the morning on September 2.

The Jana Sena chief would also hand over a cheque of Rs 50 lakh to the village panchayat during his birthday celebrations. The money was promised to the village panchayat by Pawan Kalyan in March this year during the party’s plenary.

Pawan Kalyan had announced this contribution as the villagers have offered him their agriculture fields to hold the party plenary. The villagers have allowed the party to use their agriculture fields for the event despite the damage caused to some of their standing crops.

Having promised the funds for the village in March 2022, the Jana Sena chief is giving them the cheque in September marking his birthday. The Jana Sena chief had asked the people of the Ippatam village to visit the Jana Sena party office at Mangalagiri on the day and join the celebrations and receive the cheque.

Pawan Kalyan had also asked the party activists to attend the birthday celebrations and handing over of the Rs 50 lakh cheque to the Ippatam village panchayat.

Meanwhile, the Jana Sena party leadership is making arrangements to receive the Ippatam villagers and the party workers. The party is expecting a huge turnout of the activists from across the state to greet the party chief.

Pawan Kalyan is expected to be available for the party activists in the party office from morning to the evening on September 2, the party sources said.

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Naming the crowd funding committee as “Naa Sena Kosam – Naa Vanthu”, the Jana Sena Party (JSP) constituted the committee with 32 members, on Saturday. The party announced that Bongunuri Mahender Reddy is appointed as Chairman for the Committee, Ram Tallulri is appointed as Convener and Rukmini Kota and TC Varul as Co-conveners.

G. Bhaskar, K. Sairaj, Sateesh Reddy, Kranti Kumar, Pavan Kishore, S. Giridhar and Ravi Kumar in the Coordination Committee (NRI). Tangella Uday Srinivas in Social media, while Pasupuleti Sanjiv in IT division. The party also appointed Akula Kiran, Gavara Lakshmi, Appalaswami Giridhar, M. Mahesh and G. Kishore as volunteers.

B. Venkatalakshmi, Dr. Natesh, P. Ramakrishna, T. Ramanareddy, p. Raju, Sayyad Jilani, M. Babi, Rayapati Aruna and B. Eswaraiah in Andhra Pradesh wing and Akula Suman, Miriyala Jagan, Y. Rajesh, P. Sai Sirisha and Ravula Madhu in Telangana.

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“Jana Sena works to ensure YSRCP free Andhra Pradesh in the 2024 General Elections and we will work on this aspect, take decisions on it time to time from now onwards”, announced the JSP President Pawan Kalyan, while addressing a press conference on Monday at the party headquarters at Tadepalli in Guntur district. After attending the Party Political Affairs Committee meeting, he stated that the problems created by the YSRCP government in the State were too many and it couldn’t even possible to count.

At the same time, he warned the JSP leaders that he was going to create a disciplinary committee which would take stringent action on those who violate the rules. He said that he came to know that some leaders of the party were indulging in bribe activity. He also said that some leaders in the party were working for other political parties. He suggested that those who wouldn’t wish to continue in the party, it was better to leave it and join in other political parties.
He said that they would strengthen the party senior leadership.
He observed that, “Till recently, there was a belief that Prime Minister Narendra Modi would not allow TDP President Nara Chandrababu Naidu. But, what happened? They met now. We don’t know what would happen in the future”.
He said that he would take more feedback from various sections of people in September.