If the reports emerging from Jana Sena Party camp are to be believed, the party is likely to have an alliance with the Telugu Desam Party in the forthcoming local body elections in Andhra Pradesh.
A decision to this effect is understood to have been taken at a meeting of senior leaders convened by actor and Jana Sena Party chief Pawan Kalyan.
Many leaders reportedly suggested to him that it would be better to have an alliance with the TDP rather than going alone, so as to give a tough fight to YSR Congress party.
They brought to his notice that YSRC could get more seats in the last assembly elections only because YSRC and Jana Sena had fought separately. They also told him that there was no point in entering into an alliance with the BJP as it hardly had any presence in the rural areas.
“We have to win considerable number of seats in the local body elections to retain our political identity. If we don’t do that the party would gradually lose its recognition among the people and nobody would take us seriously,” they reportedly told him.
Though Pawan did not immediately react to their suggestions, he gave them a patient hearing and said he would take a call at the earliest.
The state high court recently gave the approval for the conduct of elections to mandal parishad, zilla parishad and gram panchayat elections.
The State Election Commission will issue a notification for ZPTC and MPTC elections by January 17.
The elections will be held on February 8 and the results will be announced on February 10. The Mandal Parishad president and Zilla Parishad chairman would be elected by February 15.
Likewise, the notification for the panchayat election would be issued on February 8 and the election process would be completed by March 3.