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As Chandrababu Naidu took oath as the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh on June 12, among the who’s who on the stage were members of two influential Telugu families.
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu on Friday appointed JanaSena Party (JSP) president K Pawan Kalyan, 55, as the Deputy CM with the portfolios of Panchayati Raj and Rural Development with additional portfolios of Rural Drinking Water Supply, Environment and Forests, and Science and Technology.
CM N Chandrababu Naidu keeps Law and Order. Deputy CM Pawan Kalyan gets Panchayati Raj, Environment, Forest, Science & Technology. Nara Lokesh gets HRD, IT Electroniccs & Communication. Anitha Vangalapudi gets Home Affairs & Disaster Management. Satya Kumar Yadav gets Health. Payyavula Keshav gets Finance.
Like a scene straight out of one of his films where he pulls back from the brink to prevail over the villains, the 55-year-old actor-turned-politician Pawan Kalyan, dubbed “Power Star”, seems to have pulled off a similar feat in Andhra Pradesh’s political arena with his Jana Sena Party (JSP) achieving a 100% strike rate against various odds – winning all 21 Assembly and two Lok Sabha seats it contested as part of the NDA alliance – in the just-concluded simultaneous polls in the state.
When Prime Minister Narendra Modi filed his Lok Sabha nomination in Varanasi, part of his entourage were several politicians of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA). One of them stood out – Pawan Kalyan of the fledgling Jana Sena Party (JSP), which was founded as recently as 2014.
In October last year, a day after Chandrababu Naidu was arrested in the alleged AP Skill Development Corporation scam, actor-turned-politician Konidela Pawan Kalyan put both his political and acting careers on the line when he declared his support to the TDP chief.
Andhra Pradesh went to simultaneous elections to its 175 Assembly constituencies and 25 Lok Sabha seats on May 13. The counting of votes will take place in the state on June 4 along with the rest of the country.
As Prime Minister Narendra Modi filed his nomination from Varanasi on Tuesday, intense curiosity surrounded who his four proposers would be.