No truck with TDP, reiterates Pawan Kalyan

Ruling out the possibility of any truck with the ruling Telugu Desam Party in the coming elections to the Lok Sabha and the State Assembly, Jana Sena Party chief Pawan Kalyan on Tuesday reiterated that his party would sail only with the Left parties. Interacting with a large number of students, Mr. Pawan Kalyan sought a mandate for the combine led by the JSP to usher in change in politics.

People were upset with the conventional parties and were waiting for an opportunity to teach a lesson to the ruling TDP as well as the opposition YSR Congress Party, which had not lived up to their expectations.

“It is the youth who will decide as to which party will form the government in 2019. Give me a chance. I will produce the results,” he said amid huge applause.

Amid loud cheers, he announced that if the JSP was voted to power, a one-time nominal fee would be collected for all competitive examinations conduced by the Public Service Commission.

Unemployed youth end up paying huge sums every time they appear for competitive exams, he said, adding “you can write as many times as you want.” The cut-off age for appearing such exams would be increased to 44 years, he added. The JSP would strengthen the government schools and colleges to provide holistic education to students with due emphasis on extracurricular activities as the corporate schools and colleges turned the students into what he called ‘corporate labourers’ after education. He endeared himself to students by making a mention of renowned physicist Albert Einstein who used to play violin before cracking tough mathematical formulae.

Fluorosis problem

Sharing the concerns expressed by some students from Kanigiri about the severe fluorosis problem, he said as a son of a constable worked in the drought-prone area, he knew very well about the severity of the problem, which had assumed alarming proportions leading to chronic kidney diseases. The party on coming to power would complete the Veligonda project to find a solution to the water woes, he said.