Amid fissure in TDP-JSP alliance, Pawan Kalyan meets Chandrababu Naidu in Amaravathi
In September last year, Pawan Kalyan after meeting Chandrababu Naidu at the Rajahmundry Central Jail announced that Jana Sena would have an electoral alliance with the TDP for the forthcoming elections to throw YSR Congress Party out of power.
Pawan Kalyan with Chandrababu Naidu (X)
CHENNAI: Jana Sena Party (JSP) chief Pawan Kalyan visited the residence of former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister and Telugu Desam Party (TDP) chief N Chandrababu Naidu in Amaravathi.
The two leaders allegedly held talks on seat-sharing for forthcoming elections to the Andhra Pradesh Assembly and the Lok Sabha. Both had a detailed discussion for nearly three hours at Naidu’s residence at Undavalli here and are reported to have reached a broad understanding over the seats to be contested by the two parties.
Both the TDP and the Jana Sena have not released any statement about the outcome of the meeting. However, Pawan Kalyan reportedly told a meeting of Jana Sena leaders that there will be issues in the alliance but they were determined to overcome them to get rid of the YSR Congress Party government.
Both the leaders are understood to have discussed the joint manifesto and the issues to be raised during the election campaign.
The Jana Sena is looking for a good chunk of seats in the undivided Godavari and Krishna districts as the party is believed to have a strong presence there.
Last month, Naidu and Pawan Kalyan announced their candidates unilaterally for two assembly seats for the Andhra Pradesh polls this year. Pawan announced for Rajanagaram and Razole constituencies and Chandrababu for Araku and Mandapeta constituencies, which allegedly created a fissure in the TDP-JSP alliance.
Pawan Kalyan also had expressed his displeasure over the TDP’s political manoeuvers and hinted that his Jana Sena will contest one-third of the seats as part of the alliance.
Elections to the 175-member Assembly are slated to be held along with Lok Sabha polls in April-May. Razole was the only Assembly seat won by Jana Sena in the 2019 elections. However, its MLA R Vara Prasada Rao had later defected to the YSRCP.
It was in September last year that Pawan Kalyan after meeting Chandrababu Naidu in Rajahmundry Jail had announced that Jana Sena will have an electoral alliance with the TDP for the forthcoming elections to throw YSR Congress Party out of power.
Meanwhile, Andhra Pradesh CM YS Jagan Mohan Reddy on Saturday slammed Naidu and Pawan Kalyan and urged the YSRCP cadre to stand united in the upcoming State assembly elections.
