One of the cabinet ministers for Andhra Pradesh was Pawan Kalyan who took his oath of office from Chandrababu Naidu, the head of Telugu Desam Party (TDP) and who will be a Chief Minister.
On Tuesday, the Jana Sena Party leader one among the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) members in recent Andhra Pradesh Assembly elections became the legislature party chief.
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Who is Pawan Kalyan?
Pawan Kalyan is a well-known Tollywood actor. He is a younger brother to K Chiranjeevi. His acting career began with Akkada Ammayi Ikkada Abbayi, released in 1996.
Among his successful movies are Tholi Prema, Gabbar Singh, and Attarintiki Daredi”. In their roles in Gabbar Singh,” he got a Filmfare Award for Best Actor in Telugu.
He established the Jana Sena Party in 2014. Pepsi was used as an Ambassador by him making him the first South Indian celebrity to endorse that popular soft drink in 2001.
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Pawan Kalyan career in Politics
Kalyan established his party, JSP in 2014 but it did not contest the general elections that year; instead, he supported the TDP-BJP alliance that won power.
JSP contested its first assembly and Lok Sabha polls in Andhra Pradesh independently in 2019. The party faced an embarrassing defeat with Kalyan himself losing both Assembly seats he had contested for Gajuwaka in Visakhapatnam and Bhimavaram in West Godavari.
The party could only manage one seat Razole assembly constituency (SC-reserved) but later the MLA defected to the YSR Congress Party.
In the last half of 2022, Kalyan began a series of small public meetings called ‘Jana Vani’ to listen to people’s problems. According to Businessline as cited by him, “he was the sole politician who worked for fighting for public issues” despite losing the 2019 elections.
It led to TDP chief Naidu and Pawan Kalyan coming together again when JSP cadres were arrested at such a meeting at Visakhapatnam by the YSRCP government.
Also, he consistently attempted connecting with BJP leaders including Amit Shah and JP Nadda, although they showed no warmth towards him.
Finally, Kalyan succeeded in forming an alliance among TDP, JSP, and BJP which announced a pre-poll alliance in March.
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PM Modi praised Kalyan
On 7th June, during the NDA meeting at the Central Hall of the Old Parliament where Prime Minister Narendra Modi was addressing his allies, he lauded Kalyan for his party’s performance in Assembly polls.
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