Jana Sena chief Pawan Kalyan is making his moves very strategically. Having decided to contest the 2019 elections, he had set his eyes on the safe zone, the Uttarandhra, which is dominated by less educated and more emotionally attached people. He is looking at these 35 Assembly constituencies that form part of the Uttarandhra, spread over Srikakulam, Vizianagaram and Visakhapatnam districts.
He had started his protest yatra in this part and is currently busy taking up the issues of this area. The mysterious kidney disease of Uddanam area is the most sensitive issue that he took up. He spoke for this issue earlier when he was an ally of the ruling Telugu Desam Party. Now, being a rival, he held a two-day protest for the cause and is now happy with the government responding with a package of Rs 17 crore to open 7 dialysis centers. This might take a few months for the government to establish the dialysis centers, but he had gained an upper hand on the issue and people are loving him more for the victory. He is set to be in the region for one more month.
The target is to win majority Assembly seats here instead of wasting his time touring the entire State and using his strength and resources where he could not win. The region being backward, he seems to have set his eyes on 10 Assembly seats in Srikakulam, 9 in Vizianagaram and 15 in Visakhapatnam. Except the four Assembly seats in Visakhapatnam city and the Gajuwaka and Bobbili, where people are educated and not so emotionally attached, the rest of the seats are dominated by less educated and more emotional people. It is for this reason, he is spending more of his time and energies here.
Pawan Kalyan wants to win at least 25 Assembly seats out of 35 in the Uttarandhra which would make him a king maker after the election. His focus is more on the Srikakulam, Araku and Vizianagaram Lok Sabha constituencies, where he can win majority Assembly seats and have some from Visakhapatnam and Anakapalli Lok Sabha constituencies. He is also anticipating some Assembly seats from the two Godavari districts that would put him in comfortable position in the State politics after the elections.
