Actor-turned-politician and Jana Sena Party chief Pawan Kalyan might have stopped acting in films, but in his political life, he has been making guest appearances now and then whenever serious issues crop up, before withdrawing into his shell quickly.
This has been proved once again during the ongoing agitation by farmers of Amaravati, the capital region of Andhra Pradesh, in protest against the proposed shifting of the administrative capital to Visakhapatnam.
Initially, Pawan opposed the idea of three capitals for the state and later declared that he would take a clear stand after the Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy government took a final decision.
But when the farmers of Amaravati intensified their agitation in the last 15 days, Pawan decided to take a plunge.
He visited a few dharna camps in Amaravati, violated the police restrictions at Mandadam village and addressed a couple of meetings, expressing his solidarity with the agitating farmers.
So far so good. But within a day, Pawan quietly disappeared from the scene and is nowhere to be seen in Amaravati.
While his “big brother” Telugu Desam Party president N Chandrababu Naidu is sweating it out on the streets of Amaravati, Pawan remained elusive.
Even his party leaders like Nadendla Manohar and others are also making just guest appearances and are not to be seen regularly participating in the agitation.
Ironically, their own party MLA Rapaka Varaprasad has wholeheartedly extended his support to the three capitals plan of Jagan.
If Pawan has no clear strategy as to what political stand he has to take, it is better he withdraws from politics!