When a “press note” in the name of “Jana Sena Adhikara Prakatana” was leaked to the media on Tuesday stating that party president and power star Pawan Kalyan suspended his party’s lone MLA in Andhra Pradesh assembly Rapaka Varaprasada Rao, it did not surprise anybody.
In fact, people were under the impression that Pawan has no guts to take action against Rapaka though the latter was openly supporting the YSR Congress party and was all praise for chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy.
On Monday, too, Rapaka spoke in the assembly in support of the three-capitals bill introduced by the YSRC government.
What surprised the people was another press note from Jana Sena Party sources, describing the earlier press note as fake.
The latest press note was just stamped “fake” on it. The people wondered whether Pawan had no intention of suspending Rapaka at all.
When the media persons confronted Pawan Kalyan at his Mangalagiri office and asked him about Rapaka, the Jana Sena chief expressed anger at the MLA. He said the MLA had clearly violated the party instructions on Amaravati issue.
“When we conveyed our party stand on Amaravati to the MLA and asked him to speak the same in the assembly, he spoke in favour of the YSRC. This is nothing but a gross violation of party discipline,” Pawan said.
He said he would discuss the issue at the political affairs committee and see that appropriate action is taken against Rapaka.
However, it has been 24 hours since Pawan made the statement, but the party has not taken any stand on the MLA.
What is worse, Rapaka spoke again in the assembly on Wednesday and supported Jagan Mohan Reddy on Rythu Bharosa. He even demanded disciplinary action against the TDP MLAs for disturbing the House.
Rapaka, who represents Razole assembly constituency in East Godavari district, has been staying away from the party activities and supporting the decisions taken by the YSRC government and chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy.
He did not even bother about the instructions issued by Pawan Kalyan to oppose the decentralisation of the administration and APCRDA repeal acts.
