Jana Sena to turn political party in a year

​Hyderabad: Jana Sena Party led by Pawan Kalyan will emerge as a full-fledged political party by March next. Youth would get high priority and the exercise to give a proper shape to the party structure would begin from June end. The party will contest elections in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh and the leader would contest from Anantapur.

Announcing this here on Tuesday at a press conference to mark the occasion of completion of three years of Jana Sena Party, Pawan Kalyan said his brother Chiranjeevi will not join the party. He said his ideology and line of thinking does not match with his brother’s.

Pawan said he was going slow with regard to the organisational structure because of the experience he had with Praja Rajyam Party floated by his brother Chiranjeevi in the past. He said a lot of senior leaders from other parties had joined PRP but they had brought a lot of baggage with them and it had negative impact on the party ideology. He said he does not want a repeat performance.

Stating that youth will get top priority in his party, the Jana Sena chief said that about 60 percent of the seats will be given to youth in 2019 elections.

Asked if he was confident of coming to power, Pawan said that his aim is to be with the people and try to solve their problems. Jana Sena will continue to raise people’s issues and will question whosoever is in power. “Power is not important. It may come, it may not but I will always be with the people,” he said.

The Jana Sena has adopted a novel way to identify prospective leaders. He said a platform called ‘Janaswaram’ has been launched on the party official website. It is a platform for public to participate in policy-making and to reach out to NRI to get the overseas support base. People with insightful ideas, opinions and suggestions will get a chance to participate in emerging leadership programmes and policy workshops, he said.

He said the party had listed about 32 issues like agriculture, mining, land acquisition, startup and innovation, science and technology, fitness and martial arts, naxalism, caste-based occupations, pensioners, horticulture, civil rights and liberties, urban development, liquor and excise policy and irrigation.

He said he has realised that while ideology is important for any party and at the same time senior political leadership is also necessary. “One cannot just be idealistic,” he said.

Pawan said he was no more with NDA. “I went with them because they promised to extend all help to the truncated state but they did not do so after coming to power. Hence there is no point in going with them,” he said.

As far as alliance with Left is concerned, Pawan said that the Left-wing parties are established parties with cadre. Only after JSP emerging as a full-fledged party that he would think about alliances, he said.

Replying to another question, he said the policies and programmes of TDP government were not reaching all sections. He called upon the AP Chief Minister and those who want to set up the aqua park in West Godavari district to first prove and convince the people that the factory will not lead to pollution. If they fail to do so, he said that Jana Sena will not hesitate to take up direct agitation against the aqua park.

Pawan would be visiting areas affected by pollution in Sangareddy in Telangana.