Jana Sena president Pawn Kalyan on March 17 (Sunday) expressed confidence that the Telugu Desam Party (TDP)-Jana Sena Party (JSP)- Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) combine will form the government in Andhra Pradesh.
Addressing the Praja Galam public meeting at Boppudi near Chilakaluripet, the first joint meeting of the partners in Andhra Pradesh after the TDP and JSP joined the NDA, Mr. Pawan Kalyan described the visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi as a “big relief” to the State which was “crumbling under huge debt and without any development”.
“The five crore people of the State are happy as the three parties– BJP, TDP and JSP— have come together,” Mr. Pawan Kalyan said.
Recalling the meeting of the alliance in the run-up to the 2014 elections in Tirupati, Mr. Pawan Kalyan said, “Then the alliance was announced with the blessings of Lord Balaji and now, the three parties have come together with the blessings of Goddess Kanaka Durga.”
Welcoming the Prime Minister to the meeting, he said that Mr. Modi was set to “achieve a hattrick” and his arrival “reposed faith among the people of the State and that Amaravati is going to shine again.”
Terming Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy as a “liquor baron”, Mr. Pawan Kalyan said that Mr. Chief Minister had failed to clear ₹10,000-crore GST. “Mr. Jagan Mohan Reddy has minted ₹40,000 crore through a venture capitalist firm. Even as the State has recorded business transactions of ₹1.20 lakh crore, the Chief Minister projected it as a mere ₹84 crore. Mr. Jagan Mohan Reddy’s main goal is making money, not developing the State,” he alleged.
Pointing out that no industry had been set up in the State during the YSRCP’s tenure, Mr. Pawan Kalyan said that the existing units were shifted out of the State “unable to bear the harassment by the government”.
“The industrial growth in the State has come down to -3% from 10.4% in 2014 and this is telling all about the negative growth,” he said.
“Mr. Jagan Mohan Reddy feels that he can do anything with the huge money he has. But Mr. Modi will establish ‘Rama Rajya’ in Andhra Pradesh,” he said.
Stating that the “Kurukshetra battle has begun”, Mr Pawan Kalyan urged the people to support the NDA, saying that “morality and virtue will emerge victorious ultimately.”
