Hyderabad: Amid a line-up boasting three chief minister hopefuls and two Union ministers, the surprise package in Andhra’s battlefield tomorrow is Chiranjeevi.

The actor-turned-politician, in the fray from Palacole in West Godavari district and Tirupati in Chittoor district, has emerged as one of the contenders for the state crown alongside the Congress’s Y.S. Rajasekhar Reddy and Telugu Desam Party’s N. Chandrababu Naidu.

“My campaign is against Naidu’s false promises and the Congress’s anti-Backward Classes stance,” Chiranjeevi said on his campaign trail in Vijayawada over the weekend, possibly alluding to the Desam’s free rice, free gas and cash transfer schemes.

The triangular fight between the Congress, the Desam and Chiranjeevi’s Praja Rajyam dominates polling in the second and final phase, in which the Opposition Telengana Rashtra Samiti and the Left parties have little role to play.

The Praja Rajyam is contesting all seats — 20 Lok Sabha and 140 Assembly — in this phase and is banking on anti-Congress and anti-Desam votes as well as the support of the Backward Classes, especially the Kapus.

Chief minister Reddy has pinned his hopes for a second term on support from Rayalaseema and coastal Andhra districts where he expects the anti-Telengana sentiment fanned by him to pay dividends.

“People will not vote for freebies but for programmes that give long-term benefits,” Reddy said. He appeared confident his son Jaganmohan’s elevation to Parliament would be as smooth as his was 30 years ago.

Desam chief Naidu, who managed to get the TRS and the Left to join his grand alliance, expressed hope that his cash transfer scheme for the poor would prove a winner. His Stanford-returned son Nara Lokesh campaigned for him in Kuppam from where Naidu has been winning since 1998.

“The people will vote out the corrupt Congress and ignore the daydreaming of Chiranjeevi (who feels) that politics is child’s play,” Naidu said while electioneering in Chittoor.

There are fears that mass rigging and poll violence in Rayalaseema might affect poll percentages in tomorrow’s round of voting. Another factor at play could be the large number of women in coastal Andhra who are expected to vote for Chiranjeevi.

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The Praja Rajyam on Wednesday demanded transfer of K. Lakshmi Reddy, Chittoor Superintendent of Police, holding him responsible for the incidents in Tirupati when police tried to search the hotel room in which party president K. Chiranjeevi and his family was staying.

At separate press conferences here senior PR leaders contended that their faith in Chief Electoral Officer I.V. Subba Rao and Director-General of Police A.K. Mohanty would be intact only if the SP was transferred before 7 a.m. on Thursday.

Yuva Rajyam president Pawan Kalyan regretted the way the Congress and the TDP were going all out to deny a fledgling Praja Rajyam its rightful political space and stifling democracy.
Misguiding youth

Lashing out at the Congress and the TDP, he said they were clearly trying to misguide the youth and to poison young minds against a party that had attracted people’s attention with change and an improved society sans corruption as its unique selling proposition.

“Both the parties will realise it the hard way as to what would happen if the potential of the youth was not channelised for the good of society,” he warned.

Party general secretary P. Vinay Kumar, who returned from Tirupati in the evening, said he was shocked at the unruly and undemocratic behaviour of the Congress.

“Yes, we are new to politics. If we were experts, we would be sitting in dharna against the anti-social actions of ruling party leaders, not the other way round,” he rued.

P. Upendra, K.S.R. Murthy and general secretary C. Uma Malleswara Rao regretted that the president of a recognised party was being subjected to such treatment. They wondered if police would search the residences of Chief Minister Dr. Rajasekhara Reddy and Mr. Chandrababu Naidu.
Plea to EC

Mr. Upendra urged the Election Commission to ensure that the Central forces were deployed for poll duty at least in key constituencies, like Pulivendula, Kuppam, Tirupati and Palacole, where contestants included Dr. Reddy, Mr. Chiranjeevi and Mr. Naidu. While appreciating the actions of Mr. Subba Rao and Mr. Mohanty, they said the officers needed to deal with ‘undemocratic forces’ with an iron hand. They alleged that the Congress and the TDP had come together in a last-ditch attempt to deny victory to the Praja Rajyam. “But people are with us and will give us the strength to cross the magic figure,” they asserted.
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