Pawan started ‘Praja Porata yatra’ today and held public meeting in Srikakulam district. He tried to give clarity on several critical comments that analysts and opponents have been making on Janasena.

First thing, there has been criticism on janasena party for so long that Pawan Kalyan failed to build cadre and leadership in his party. Pawan Kalyan replied to this criticism by stating, even Chandrababu Naidu did not build cadre for his party but he took the party from NTR. He added, his cadre is not similar to cadre of conventional parties and all these lakhs of people who admire him are his strength.

Second, there has been criticism on janasena party Pawan Kalyan himself does not know how many seats his party will contest for in 2019 election. In this meeting he tried to give clarity on that, buy emphasising his party will contest to all 175 seats. In fact has been giving similar statements of late.

Third, recently there has been criticism on Pawan’s party that he is dancing to the tunes of BJP and reading the scripts of BJP. Pawan tried to mark-off these allegations by coming down heavily on BJP. Pawan directly criticized Modi as well as BJP for cheating people of Andhra Pradesh on special category status. He even did a foot march on special category status. He even made strong comments as he questioned his critics “Do you think me a puppet to dance to the tunes of Delhi and read the scripts of Delhi. I am not a puppet, I am Pawan Kalyan”.

Fourth, there has been criticism, especially from analysts on Pawan’s earlier statements that goal of him and his party is not the power but help solve problems of people. Analysts have found issues even with this statement. They remarked, aim of political party must be to come into power and if social service is the goal Pawan should have gone for an NGO rather than political party. Pawan, now busted this criticism too as he clearly stated that his party will strive to come into power in 2019.

He even attempted to give clarity on his stand on fisherman community vs Adivasi community issue as he blamed TDP for creating rift between these 2 communities. He also tried to clarify why he broke up with TDP. In addition to TDP failing to fulfil the promises, as Pawan mentioned, TDP insulting Janasena in their private discussions as the reason for breaking up with TDP.

Overall, Pawan’s meeting was a huge success and he was successful in giving clarity on most of the critical comments on Janasena

-ZURAN