Jana Senani Pawan Kalyan has taken up a 4-month long penance for the well-being and recovery of the nation from multiple threats of Coronavirus, economic crisis and destruction of livelihoods. He started Chathurmasya Deeksha and he will be taken only one meal a day for the next four months. There will be no regular dinner. He will take just some milk and fruits after sunset till the penance is over.

Senani’s political secretary P. Hari Prasad says that for nearly two decades, Senani has been doing this deeksha and this time it is dedicated for the national and global wellbeing in times of pandemic crisis. Pawan will take ‘satvic’ food which is light, vegetarian food completely. He will totally stay away from non-vegetarian dishes during this time. At the end of the four months, he will wrap up his penance by taking satvic vegetarian food for dinner on the final day.

Senani is especially concerned about the daily wagers, migrant workers and those depending on the traditional caste professions like weavers, hawkers, tailors and all. They were badly hit financially, psychologically and personally. They have lost their livelihoods. Senani’s strong wish is for early recovery of these people from these difficult times.

The issue of Kapu quota has once again been raked up. Jana Sena Party president Pawan Kalyan on Saturday said the Jagan government has done great injustice to the Kapu community.

The actor-turned-politico made serious remarks on Chief Minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy for cheating Kapu community by removing the five percent reservation. He said that the YSRCP was trying to use the issue of Kapu reservation for its selfish politics. The Jaganmohan Reddy government has overturned his predecessor N Chandrababu Naidu’s pre-poll decision to grant five per cent reservation to Kapus.

“For the last 56 years, the successive governments have cheated and used the Kapu community as mere vote banks. The Jagan government is against the progress of the Kapu community and therefore the Andhra Pradesh government has stalled the move to provide 5 per cent reservation to Kapus,” Pawan Kalyan said.

Further, he tore into Jagan government’s claims that it had spent Rs 4,770 crore in the last 13 months. “This is a new theory being floated by the Jagan government only to deny reservations to Kapus. I would like to ask this government if the Rs 4,770 crore was given to only Kapus or all the communities,” he asked.

He found fault with the ‘Kapu Nestam’ scheme for recognising only 2.35 lakh as beneficiaries. The scheme launched recently provides financial aid of Rs 15,000 per annum for five years only for 2.35 lakh women of Kapu, Telaga, Balija and Ontari communities. He also sought to know how much money was allocated to Kapu Corporation vis-a-vis corporations of other communities and how much money was disbursed. “The government should release a white paper on this,” Pawan Kalyan demanded.

After the Andhra Pradesh government cancelled the SSC examinations, Jana Sena Party president Pawan Kalyan on Tuesday demanded that the Jagan sarkar cancel all the exams stating that the current environment owing to the pandemic is not conducive to conduct any examination.

In a statement, the actor-turned-politico said the government should cancel all the exams, including degree final exams, MBA semester examinations, BSc, engineering, polytechnic and ITI in view of the alarming rise in corona cases in Andhra Pradesh.

Further, Pawan Kalyan said it is not advisable for students to travel from towns and cities to exam centers to appear for the exams. “Students have expressed their concern to the Jana Sena Party that there is a short time to go for higher studies and getting certificates for the campus selection and may lose eligibility in getting certificates due to delay in the exams. Keeping in view the future of lakhs of students, the government must cancel the examinations and declare them passed,” Pawan Kalyan stated.

Citing Maharashtra and Odisha government’s decision to cancel final year degree exams in their respective states in the backdrop of rising coronavirus cases, Pawan Kalyan suggested that the AP government should take a cue from other states.

In the last 24 hours, AP reported another 443 cases taking the tally to 9,372. Around five people have succumbed to Covid-19 during the same period. The total number of fatalities climbed to 111.

In view of the alarming rise in corona cases, the AP government had recently cancelled the SSC exams and all students would be promoted to the next class without any examination, as it would not be possible to hold the exam due to the spread of coronavirus. All the 10th class students will be promoted to the next class by giving them grades based on their internal assessment marks.