On Friday, actor-politician Pawan Kalyan said that the Telangana had not been formed because of the Congress or the TRS, but because of the martyrs of Telangana.
Pawan Kalyan while campaigning for the BJP candidate for Secunderabad Parliamentary constituency, Mr Bandaru Dattatreya, in Secunderabad and Khairatabad, said that only the BJP-TD-Jana Sena combine could bring about development.
Before coming to the city, Pawan Kalyan held whirlwind campaigns in several places in Telangana. He had agreed to campaign for Mr Dattatreya after the latter asked him to do so.
As said by Dattatreya said that, “Only Modi can build this nation and ensure development. The Congress has to be voted out.”
Although Pawan Kalyan kept everyone waiting for two hours, there was frenzy when he at the end of the day turned up. “The Congress has the blood of 1,200 students on its hands. It didn’t do anything till all these martyrs died for the cause of Telangana,” he said in Khairatabad.
Previously, in Secunderabad, he said, “The NDA combine of the BJP, TD and the Jana Sena has one mantra: Development; One name: Narendra Modi and; one slogan: Congress hatao.”
Mr Modi didn’t seem to matter much at the Secunderabad meeting. The build up to the BJP-TD-Jana Sena was more about the TD and its Secunderabad candidate Kuna Venkatesham Goud. There was no talk about of Mr Dattatreya until he arrived, symbolic of the discord between the two parties.