Pawan to contest from Gajuwaka, Bheemavaram

Amaravati: Jana Sena Party chief Pawan Kalyan has finally decided to contest from two constituencies in the ensuing Assembly polls. A party statement says that Pawan would be contesting from Bheemavaram in West Godavari district and Gajuwaka in Visakhapatnam district.Pawan appears to be following the footsteps of his elder brother and superstar K Chiranjeevi.

The JSP surveyed eight constituencies across the state and zeroed in on these two constituencies for Pawan to contest. When Chiranjeevi floated Praja Rajyam in 2009 elections, he contested from Palakollu in West Godavari and Tirupati in Chittoor and won only from Tirupati. PRP had won 18 seats but later it had merged with the Congress.

Out of the 175 seats in the state Assembly, the BSP will contest 21 seats, while the CPI and CPM will contest on seven seats each. The remaining 140 seats will be fought by the JSP. In the Gajuwaka constituency, Pawan would be facing sitting MLA Palla Srinivas Rao of the TDP and YSR Congress Party contestant Tippala Nagi Reddy in an interesting triangular contest.Meanwhile, the Jana Sena decided that former Joint Director of the CBI VV Laxminarayana would contest the Visakhapatnam Lok Sabha constituency.