Jana Sena to work with Dalits to expand base in the AP

Kurnool: Jana Sena Party which plans to field its founder President Pawan Kalyan from Anantapur district appears to be roping leaders from Rayalaseema region to strengthen its base. An unusual strand of evidence appears from series of media interactions planned with former Dalit Congress MP from Chittor Chinta Mohan. Dr Mohan, who also served as a union minister in P.V. Narasimha Rao cabinet, was seen interacting with the kapu and balija leaders in the region. Dr Mohan hails from Tirupati in Chittor district which has sizeable number of the balijas and the kapus. The Jana Sena idea appears to be enlisting the support of the Dalits by wooing their leaders who has got wide following.

Chinta Mohan demanded the CBI to probe in to the Polavaram Project works as '6000 corruption took place in the project. He said that the Polavaram Project which was a dream of Andhra Pradesh people, was now in the grip of corrupt leaders. He stated that it is not Polavaram but Avineetivaram (a gift of corruption). Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu had differences with Union Minister Nitin Gadkari over the share of corruption amounts and following this, the Centre has halted the project construction works, the Congress leader criticised.

The former union minister also challenged YSR congress party chief Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy to disclose secret pact as he had with BJP. He said that in Andhra Pradesh an alternative to TD should emerge and the Opposition leader is unable to rise to the occasion as he is facing several corruption cases. He said that the leader of the Opposition is conducting Patayatra only to improve his physical fitness.  

The Congress leader further said that, during the past 60 years and even now the state ruled by only two social groups and justice was not done to any other communities be it BCs and communities.

Quoting several examples where leaders from backward communities rose to the level of state CMs like in Karnataka, Maharashtra, UP, Rajastan, Orissa, Dr Mohan wailed as to why such possibility is not seen in AP. He questioned why only CMs from two dominant communities have been ruling the AP since independence. He did not want to acknowledge the elevation of Dalit CM Sanjivaiah from Kurnool and brushed it as stop gap arrangement.

Speaking to this correspondent, Dr Mohan said that he was a congress man and  he does not want to shift loyalties to other parties. But he has no answer as to why he was demanding a CM from BC community like Kapus.