With polling for the 13th Assembly in the State getting over today, the Praja Rajyam Party (PRP) is hoping to become a king-maker in governmentformation.

It expects to win at least 105 seats across the State and hopes that there will be a hung Assembly. Under such circumstances, the PRP would become the kingmaker and decide who should form the next government.

The PRP office in Hyderabad remained silent without any activity while the other two major parties — the TDP and the Congress — celebrated the occasion claiming that victory was theirs.

Though PRP leaders turned up at the party office, they stayed away from the media and hesitated to make any comment on the second phase of polling.

PRP president Chiranjeevi, who’s contesting the Tirupati Assembly constituency, remained in Tirupati observing the polling patterns throughout the day. He was scheduled to go to Palacole in the morning, come back to Tirupati by afternoon and return to Hyderabad.

But, he stayed back in Tirupati in the backdrop of yesterday’s incidents.

The PRP leaders hope to do well in the second phase as the turnout of women voters was phenomenal in the coastal Andhra districts.

PRP political affairs committee member P Upendra stated that youngsters and women had voted in the PRP’s favour.

“The turnout of women and youth was very good. In fact, the youth outnumbered elders. All the youth have voted for us. The women votes should go either to the TDP or come to us. My feeling is that women have voted in our favour,’’ Upendra reasoned.

The PRP hopes to win about 70 seats in the second phase and with 35 seats in the first phase, its tally may reach 105. The expectation of the party leaders is that the Congress and the TDP might get about 110 to 120 seats each, resulting in a hung Assembly. They feel happy as the party managed to put up a better fight in the second phase than the first. According to them, Chiranjeevi is going to win with impressive margins from Palacole and Tirupati.

The PRP has done very well in East and West Godavari districts and Krishna district, the party leaders opine.

They expect to win about six parliamentary seats. According to them, the PRP will win Anakapalli, Kakinada, Narasapuram, Machilipatnam, Guntur and Rajampeta parliamentary constituencies.

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TIRUPATI: Barely a few hours before the start of polling, high drama unfolded here when police made a vain bid to search the hotel room of Praja Rajyam president K. Chiranjeevi after Congress workers staged a dharna alleging that he was distributing money to their party cadre.

Tension mounted as the slogan-shouting Congress workers’ demonstration in front of the hotel was countered by Praja Rajyam cadre. Amidst angry gesticulations, both groups indulged in heated exchanges and almost came to blows when police wielded batons to disperse them.

A visibly upset Chiranjeevi, who is contesting from Tirupati, took serious objection to the police’s “partisan attitude” and insisted that the search be done only in the presence of the media. Denying the charge that he was disbursing money to the women Congress workers, Chiranjeevi told the police party that he was only discussing poll strategy with his party functionaries and studying the voters list.

Addressing media persons, he termed the incident as a “cheap drama” enacted by the Congress leaders out of frustration over outcome of Thursday’s election. He criticised the police for trying to raid his room just because a “bunch” of Congress workers shouted slogans in front of the hotel.

Mr. Chiranjeevi urged the Election Commission and the Chief Electoral Officer to ensure a free and fair election on Thursday.

Meanwhile, Congress candidate, B. Karunakar Reddy, sought to turn the tables on Mr. Chiranjeevi. He told media persons that it was the megastar’s deliberate attempt to make a “flop” into a “hit movie”. Piqued by PR leaders’ charge, he took media persons to search his house. “I have nothing to hide, my house is open,” he said.

Hyderabad Special Correspondent adds: Taking serious note of these developments, the Election Commission decided to relieve five police officials of election duty in Tirupati and post them elsewhere.

They include Ammi Reddy, Additional SP, Nagore Reddy, DSP, Narayan Reddy, Circle Inspector and Ramachandra Reddy, Sub-Inspector. It also deputed V. Prasada Rao, APSP Commandant, to supervise law and order in Tirupati constituency and despatched two additional police platoons to the town. The Praja Rajyam, however, demanded transfer of Chittoor SP, K. Lakshmi Reddy.
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Angered with the Congress party allegations and for targeting him by police at Tirupati, PRP President Chiranjeevi said that, ‘The factionist style of attacking the opposition leaders can be seen very clearly today, with the congress gundas imported from Kadapa who made an attempt to attack us. Congress lost all its hopes winning the elections and trying to terrorise the opposition parties, with its congress masked gundas. If, YSR thinks that he can succeed with his factionist style of functioning, he might be day dreaming. He can not come to power, using brutal force against opposition parties. He knows that he is going to loose the elections.’
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