Jana Sena to contest with TDP: Pawan Kalyan

Rajamahendravaram: Tollywood star and Jana Sena Party president K. Pawan Kalyan on Thursday announced an alliance with the Telugu Desam Party.

After calling on TDP national president N. Chandrababu Naidu at the Central Prison here, where he has been lodged after his arrest in the Rs.371-crore skill development scam case, he said they will put up candidates jointly in Telangana Assembly polls due in next few months.

He had a mulaqaat with the former Chief Minister along with TDP MLA Nandamuri Balakrishna and Naidu's son N. Lokesh.

JSP at present is a member of NDA. Pawan has been underlining the need for a contest by an united Operation including BJP to dislodge YSRCP from power in general elections due in 2024. BJP has remained non-committal on alliance with the TDP, which walked out of NDA in 2018.

Flanked by Balakrishna and Lokesh, he told the media outside the jail that a person of Naidu's stature, who brought Bill Gates and Microsoft to Hyderabad and initiated the development of Cyberabad has been arrested and put in jail by the YSRCP Government. "Time has come for a united Operation to put an end to YSRCP misrule," he declared.

Pawan Kalyan hoped that BJP will also join them. "I being part of NDA have been telling the leadership on the need for a joint fight and I am hoping that they will take a positive decision on this," he said.