The culmination of Telugu Desam Party general secretary Nara Lokesh’s Yuva Galam padayatra at Visakhapatnam on Monday evening is going to be, perhaps, the first major event to showcase the alliance of TDP and Jana Sena Party.
Jana Sena Party president and power star Pawan Kalyan, in fact was reluctant to attend Lokesh’s concluding public meeting at Visakhapatnam, as there was a stalemate over the number of seats to be shared between the TDP and Jana Sena Party.
However, he changed his mind and finally agreed to attend Lokesh rally, after TDP president and former chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu personally met him on Sunday night and closed the deal for seat sharing.
Apparently, Pawan has agreed for 24 assembly seats and two Lok Sabha seats, as against 15+2 formula suggested by the TDP earlier.
Naidu also offered to accommodate good number of Jana Sena Party leaders in various nominated posts, once the alliance comes to power.
Apparently, there was also a difference of opinions on waiting for the Bharatiya Janata Party to join the combine.
While Pawan reportedly said there was no need to wait, as it will reduce the bargaining power of Jana Sena, Naidu reportedly suggested that it would be better to wait for a few days more.
Now that there is some understanding between the two parties, they have decided to go together in all the public rallies hereafter.
The Lokesh rally at Visakhapatnam on Monday will be the first such opportunity to showcase their unity and send a message to the people and cadre that they would be going together in the next elections.
In another two days, there is likely to be a joint public meeting of the TDP and Jana Sena Party in Visakhapatnam again in the name of “Vijayotsava Sabha.”
Both the parties have given a call to their cadre to mobilse crowds to the rally and this will be the major step towards declaration of alliance in public, sources said.
