Even as the agitation by the farmers of Amaravati to prevent the shifting of capital city to Visakhapatnam has reached its peak, Jana Sena Party president and Pawan Kalyan is making a late entry.
While the Telugu Desam Party has been fighting tooth and nail against the capital shift and even stalled the passage of the bills in the legislative council, Pawan wants to take up the cause of the farmers.
But instead of chalking out the agitation programmes in the state, Pawan went all the way to New Delhi to announce his programme of action with the support of the Bharatiya Janata Party.
On Thursday, Pawan Kalyan and BJP leaders met BJP's national president JP Nadda to seek his nod for the agitational programme. Pawan told him about the plan of action to be implemented in AP.
Pawan told reporters later that the three capitals issue had no support of either Prime Minister Narendra Modi or Home Minister Amit Shah and it was wrong to say that Jagan Mohan Reddy had kept these two top leaders in the loop.
“It is a unilateral decision of the YSRC government,” he said.
As part of their joint programme, Jana Sena and BJP are planning to hold a long march from Tadepalli to Exhibition Grounds in Vijayawada on February 2 at 2 pm to express solidarity with the farmers who have given the lands for the capital construction.
On Wednesday, the BJP-Jana Sena Coalition Coordination Committee meeting was held in Delhi in which Pawan Kalyan, Kanna Lakshminarayana, Nadendla Manohar, GVL Narasimha Rao and Purandeshwari discussed the future course of action to be implemented in the state.
The committee has decided to meet every fifteen days to take the alliance forward.