New Delhi: Pawan Kalyan’s Jana Sena Party has announced an alliance with Bharatiya Janata Party in Andhra Pradesh and the two would fight all coming elections together.
“Today is a historic day of announcement of BJP-Jana Sena alliance,” Sunil Deodhar, BJP in-charge for Andhra Pradesh said, at a joint press conference of leaders of the two parties.
“We will fight together to end political casteism, political dynasty raj, and corruption in the state,” Mr Deodhar said. “In a short period of time, Jagan Mohan Reddy government has failed and so did Chandrababu Naidu. And there is no question of any alliance of the BJP with Telugu Desam or with YSRCP in the state,” declared the BJP in-charge for Andhra Pradesh, putting to rest some speculation doing the rounds.
Jana Sena chief Pawan Kalyan: I believe in leadership of Modi ji. Unlike other religion parties where they think of only regional prospects, Jana Sena is for national integrity. We are aligned with BJP’s ideology – patriotism, nationalism & developmental approach of Modi ji. https://t.co/u3XuWFQ2ka pic.twitter.com/eHLLjbeXfA
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The meetings and press conference was attended by Pawan Kalyan, Nadendla Manohar, former IAS Rammohan and others on behalf of the Jana Sena. On behalf of the BJP, the state president, BJP in charge for Andhra Pradesh Sunil Deodhar, GVL Narasimha Rao, Purandeswari and others were present.
Pawan Kalyan has come forward to work unconditionally with the BJP, the BJP president said, and blamed the YSRCP government of taking anti-people decisions.
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The BJP including Amit Shah and GVL Narasimha Rao had said Pawan Kalyan must merge his Jana Sena with the BJP if he wants to work with the national party but on Thursday they said the alliance was unconditional from both sides.
YSR Congress has reacted saying Pawan Kalyan is a leader without consistency. The party’s Ambati Rambabu mocked Pawan Kalyan for saying it is an unconditional merger. “He is the same one who said Modi gave spoilt laddoos to Andhra Pradesh. What changed now?”
“Why should we worry about two parties which hardly have a presence in Andhra Pradesh,” he asked. In the 2019 elections, Jana Sena got less than seven per cent vote share and BJP got less than one per cent.
On the contentious Citizenship Amendment Act, Pawan Kalyan said he does not believe it is inimical to the interests of the Muslims in India.
