HYDERABAD: In a move seen as a counter to actor Pawan Kalyan’s Jana Sena Party’s “back Modi” campaign, Union Minister K. Chiranjeevi has made a fervent appeal to his fans to rally around the beleaguered Congress party in the coming elections.
Virtually on a fire-fighting mode and trying to resuscitate the Congress party in Seemandhra, Mr. Chiranjeevi on Tuesday convened a meeting of the key members of his fans clubs from 13 districts. The meeting attended by AP Congress Committee president N.Raghuveera Reddy and former Minister Vatti Vasant Kumar saw Mr. Chiranjeevi requesting the fans to back the Congress at this crucial juncture.
Sources said he promised that the fans club members would also be considered for tickets in the Assembly and Parliament elections. He said that the fans should take the primary membership of the Congress party and send across a strong message to the people that they are not split in their loyalty between Mr. Chiranjeevi and Mr. Pawan Kalyan.
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The meeting, according to Congress leaders, was convened in wake of the recent call given by Pawan Kalyan to throw out the Congress and vote Narendra Modi as the Prime Minister. Mr. Chiranjeevi it is understand had made a plea to the fans across the 13 district during the bus yatra to revive the party fortunes.
Mr. Chiranjeevi, who is the campaign committee chairman of the APCC, hopes that the fans would bail out the Congress party after the State was divided. The party is facing the worst crisis in Seemandhra with a spate of defections and people in general viewing the Congress as the main culprit in dividing the State.
(eom)
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