Prajarajyam chief Chiranjeevi and Telangana Rashtra Samiti president K Chandrasekhar Rao are in no mood to let their guard down and take a break after the gruelling campaign unlike chief minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy and TDP supremo N Chandrababu Naidu. While the CM is cooling off in Shimla, Naidu headed off to an unknown destination in Europe.

Having received information that Congress “money managers’’ are on the prowl to poach their candidates, both Chiranjeevi and KCR are on an alert and are taking steps to keep the flock together.

The two leaders have reportedly started fortification measures to prevent the cash-rich Congress getting anywhere near their candidates.

Though both parties are ready to join hands with the Congress if the situation warrants, it is the ‘retail purchase’ of candidates that they fear. The negotiation or bargaining should be at the party level and not at the individual level, sources of PRP and TRS said.

Sources said it is the PRP which is more worried, as the party is said to have gathered information that some of its candidates have already been ‘won over’ by influential Congress candidates in several constituencies. Suspicion has fallen on some important leaders who joined the party just before the elections.

For now, Chiranjeevi has no plans to detain his candidates in the office or pack them off to a summer resort. But once the results are out on May 16, a camp to keep the victorious candidates together is not ruled out. This again depends on the number of seats it would win, sources said.

In the meantime, the actor-turned-politician is indulging in psychological operations to keep up the spirits of his herd. In the ongoing district-wise review meetings with candidates, Chiranjeevi is trotting out theories of silent revolution, huge turnout of women and youth, etc., and trying to convince the candidates that the party would form the government winning at least 160 seats.

The scene in the TRS is different. Telangana Bhawan, the party headquarters, has turned into an impregnable fortress since the last several days. The party chief has plans to detain all the candidates in the office from May 15 onwards.

The elected MLAs of the party will not be allowed to come out till the new government is formed. Sources said even the cellphone calls would be monitored.

The need for such precaution in the TRS has arisen following the split engineered in the party by the Congress in the 2004 elections.

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Telugu Desam leader Kadiam Srihari has made light of the claim by Praja Rajyam president K. Chiranjeevi that his party would get majority and maintained that the seats of the four-party Grand Alliance would cross the magic figure.

Talking to reporters here on Sunday, he said PRP’s performance would be much below par the expectations of Mr. Chiranjeevi and the fledgling party would not bag more than 30 seats.

It was not in a position to secure even 10 seats in as many districts in Telangana, he added.

Mr. Srihari also denied speculation that TDP was trying to woo Praja Rajyam saying where was the need for it when GA would get majority. On the likely partners in a Telugu Desam-led government, he said the respective parties would decide whether they should be part of the coalition regime.

He also ruled out the possibility of the party supporting either NDA or UPA at the Centre. The party along with the Left was strengthening a non-Congress, non-BJP alternative .

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Fans of Praja Rajyam chief Chiranjeevi are upbeat.

The Megastar’s repeated claim that his party would secure a comfortable majority to form a government seems to be working like a rejuvenating tonic for them.

Even otherwise, Chiru being interviewed by national channels, who dub him as the ‘King maker’ in the event of a hung Assembly in Andhra Pradesh, is reason enough for his supporters to keep their smile intact.

Chiranjeevi, on his part, almost surprised everybody with his strategic answers to queries on his role in a coalition government.

Asked which party would he support in the event of a fractured verdict, he simply said he would cross the bridge only when it comes to.

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HYDERABAD: Prajarajyam party president K Chiranjeevi would soon embark on an elaborate exercise to interact with mandal-level and village-level PRP leaders over the next 10 days.

Though the schedule has not been finalized, messages have been sent to all contestants to shortlist at least 20 names in their respective constituencies who sincerely took the party to the masses. These 20 leaders would have direct interaction with the party president and they in turn would be asked to identify 50 leaders at the mandal-level and village-level, who would have an opportunity to meet the party president and share their experiences over dinner.

Party sources said that the dinner diplomacy was being planned to keep the cadres’ morale high till the day of counting, May 16. Strangely, Chiranjeevi would be doing an exercise which his arch political rival and TDP president N Chandrababu Naidu completed well before the conduct of elections in the state.

Meanwhile, the PRP president was on a high on Monday with more than satisfactory feedback from contestants in East Godavari, West Godavari and Visakhapatnam. The review meetings held to assess the party’s performance in East Godavari and West Godavari ended on a buoyant note with party leaders exuding confidence that the party would win 28 out of the 34 assembly seats.

Contestants who attended the meeting claimed that women and first-time voters in both the Godavari districts came out in large numbers to cast a `decisive vote’. The polling percentage in both the Godavari districts was as high as 81.5 per cent. The PRP president has reviewed the party’s performance in 22 districts and the last one on the list is Krishna district, which would be reviewed on Tuesday.

In response to a query, contestants from West Godavari said that they would strive for the victory of any candidate from Palacole, in case the party president decided to retain the Tirupati assembly seat.

In another development, the party demanded the state government to announce and ex gratia of Rs 1 lakh to 38 people, mostly poor farmers, who died of sun stroke across the state in the past 48 hours.

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“From now, on there will be a receptive leadership at the party headquarters and all the leaders, including the disaffected ones, will be taken in to confidence,’’ stated the Praja Rajyam Party president Chiranjeevi.
He would meet all the leaders, irrespective of their positions, and would accommodate all those who worked for the party in various positions. Chiranjeevi was interacting with mediapersons here Sunday in between the ongoing constituency-wise analysis of party performance. The exercise has nearly come to an end and just a few districts remained, he stated.
After May 4, he would start meeting leaders constituencywise, including disappointed ticket aspirants.
Due to lack of time before the polls, he was not able to meet all the people, the actor said. As many of the leaders were away campaigning, there was no one in the office to give the second-rung leaders a hearing and this had brought the “non-receptive’’ tag on the party, the PRP chief pointed out.
Lack of a proper communication system had caused some errors in selection of candidates, he conceded.
Irrespective of all these problems, the party had fared well in the elections, Chiranjeevi maintained, and exuded confidence that it would get a clear majority.
There was 72.5 percent polling in the State — 17 percent more than in the previous elections — and all the additional votes had gone into the PRP kitty, he said, adding that the feedback from the candidates corroborated his estimate. Ridiculing other parties for claiming credit for increase in the polling percentage, Chiranjeevi claimed that that was to be attributed to the rise of the PRP.
He critisised both the chief minister and Opposition leader for going off on vacations, “neglecting the people’s problems’’.
The paddy produced by the farmers was not bought at minimum support price on the pretext that it contained moisture, he alleged, and wondered why prices of essentials were not declining.
Asked what action the party would take in the case of candidates who did not campaign, Chiranjeevi said such things would be looked into. He admitted that some leaders had taken the polls lightly.
The PRP chief rubbished allegations that party tickets were sold, and stated that the canard was spread by disgruntled elements.

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With a close result being expected for the state elections, a heated debate is on in political circles about the status of MLAs elected from the Praja Rajyam. Will they be treated as legislators belonging to a recognised party and bound by the party whip, or will they be treated as independents because the party is not recognised, is the big question.

The debate has gained importance because of talk that main parties like the Congress and TD-led Grand Alliance could poach the party’s legislators. The Praja Rajyam is not a recognised political party as per the symbol order, though the Election Commission gave the party a common symbol for the elections. It will be recognised automatically once it secures a minimum of two seats in the Assembly and six per cent of valid polled votes in the state, which is a given.

Since the Praja Rajyam has so far not been recognised by the Election Commission, other parties are arguing that its MLAs will not be bound by the Anti-Defection Law and will be free to extending support or voting in favour of any party and should be treated on par with independent MLAs.

According to sources, there was a debate among politicians on the subject at a party held on Sunday attended by, among others, Dr K.V.P. Ramachandra Rao, MP and friend of the Chief Minister, and Mr Allu Aravind, Chiranje-evi’s brother-in-law and Praja Rajyam power front.

When contacted Mr Aravind acknowledged that the debate was on. “We know both the Cong-ress and the TD are trying to create confusion among our MLAs.”

He said the party had discussed the issue with constitutional experts in Delhi. According to them, Mr Aravind said, whoever gets elected on behalf of the Praja Rajyam would be automatically treated as MLAs belonging to the party.

“The rule says whoever contests the polls on the B-form issued by a political party, whether it has got recognition or not, will automatically be treated as MLAs belonging to that party,” Mr Aravind said. “There is no ambiguity on this. We know the intentions of these old parties, but we are not afraid of them. We are going to get absolute majority.”

The Chief Electoral Officer, Dr I.V. Subba Rao, endorsed this view. “I think defections are not allowed to candidates elected on behalf of a political party and on the B-forms issued by that party,” he said. “If the whole party decides to support another party in the formation of government that is a different story, that is allowed by the law but not through defections.”

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