Amravati: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will on Sunday evening address a grand National Democratic Alliance rally ‘Prajagalam,’ (the voice of the public) in Palnadu district, the first joint public meeting of NDA partners in Andhra Pradesh after ten years. Modi will be joined by TDP supremo N Chandrababu Naidu and Janasena chief Pawan Kalyan in the public meeting, and this is the first time all the three leaders will share the stage in a rally for the 2024 polls.
Notably, this is the first rally of the National Democratic Alliance for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections scheduled to take place in seven phases starting from April 19. The TDP will formally join the NDA at this rally, following their alliance with the BJP, even though the Jana Sena Party is already a member of the NDA.
Named Prajagalam, the meeting will mark the first NDA election meeting in Andhra Pradesh in the run-up to the simultaneous Legislative Assembly and Lok Sabha polls scheduled on May 13.
Janasena said Prajagalam is aimed at “chasing away atrocious politics” for the golden future of Andhra Pradesh. The TDP, Janasena and BJP are mobilising their cadres in large numbers for the meeting.
The NDA partners finalised their seat-sharing formula for the Lok Sabha and state polls following a marathon discussion held at Naidu’s Andhra Pradesh residence in Undavalli on March 11, under which the BJP will contest six Lok Sabha and 10 assembly seats while the TDP will fight in 17 parliamentary and 144 state seats.
Pawan Kalyan’s Janasena will contest two Lok Sabha and 21 assembly seats.
Naidu has announced the names of 128 candidates for the assembly polls while 16 more are due, which may be announced any time now.
The Janasena has announced seven candidates so far, with Kalyan fighting the assembly election from Pithapuram constituency. The BJP is yet to announce its list of its candidates for the polls.
Earlier on March 9, Chandrababu Naidu extended a formal invitation to PM Modi and requested him to participate in the Chilakaluripeta rally on March 17, the TDP leader said. This came after the Bharatiya Janata Party finalized the seat-sharing talks with the TDP in the national capital.
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