Deccan Chronicle

PK gives 3 options to strike alliance fo 2024 elections

- DC CORRESPOND­ENT VIJAYAWADA, JUNE 4

Jana Sena chief Pawan Kalyan has proposed three options for making political alliance with BJP and Telugu Desam to contest in the ensuing polls scheduled to be held in 2024 in AP.

The first option is that Jana Sena will strike an alliance with BJP and will contest polls together while the second option is to repeat the 2014 poll scenario by making alliances with BJP and Telugu Desam and the third option is that Jana Sena alone will contest in the polls with no alliance with any other party, the Jana Sena chief told supporters at the party office at Mangalagir­i on Saturday.

He said that he humbled himself in the elections held in 2014 and also in 2019 to safeguard the interests of the state and made it clear that in 2024 polls, he would no longer do so and instead advised others like TD to humble itself, quoting the Bible verse saying that those who humble themselves would be exalted.

He advised the party supporters not to take his statement on political alliance with BJP and TD to their hearts and involve in clashes with one another saying that he talked about it in a lighter vein.

The Jana Sena chief said that no BJP leader had ever told him that he would be made as CM of AP. However, he said that he wanted the power to be in his hands to serve the people in a better way as they were already doing so without having

power in their hands. He wanted no splitting of antiincumb­ency votes so that their political alliance would get all such votes and help form a government to safeguard the interests of the state and ensure political stability.

He called upon the party activists to reach out to the people and try to help promote harmony on caste and communal lines. He held the YSRC government responsibl­e for the Amalapuram violence and said that it was developed due to the internal rivalry between two groups in the party and expressed concern over the way how the minister was made a victim as his house was torched.

The Jana Sena chief turned critical of the YSRC government and slammed the Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy for allegedly involving in high level corruption. He said the Yuvajana Sramika Rythu Congress party was not providing work for workers, nor jobs to youth and was nog giving remunerati­ve price being offered to the farmers.

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