Praja Rajyam president Chiranjeevi on Friday promised 24-hour free power supply to farmers, at least in backward districts, if his party comes to power.
Addressing a large gathering near Narsannapet on National Highway 5 as part of his “Praja Ankitha Yatra,” he said it was the government’s responsibility to come to the rescue of people when they were in a crisis.
Farmers were already reeling under shortage of fertilizer and unremunerative prices for their produce, he said. Power shortage only added to their woes and if the government did not help them “We will work out a proposal to extend free power supply in backward districts.”
It was as if people from every house in this town had turned up on the streets to catch a glimpse of the star-turned-politician atop his ‘Praja Ankitha Ratham’ flanked by MLCs Gorle Haribabu and former Minister in the Telugu Desam government Tammineni Seetaram. The roads were so packed with people, especially women and youth, that the long-winding convoy comprising at least 100 vehicles could only inch forward.
In tune with his policy of not criticising leaders of other political parties and using harsh language against anyone, he did not name anybody but regretted that successive governments had neglected peoples’ welfare.
Individual and political interests were placed above that of the people. “If you patronise the Praja Rajyam, I promise that we will work out solutions to every problem you have been facing the past decades and do everything to improve your daily life,” he declared to a thunderous applause.
On the first day of his ‘Yatra’, he addressed half a dozen meetings in this town, attracting teeming crowds. He said he was all for development but not at the cost of welfare. “The common man cannot be hit below the belt,” he said, promising that he would do everything to remove imbalances in society.
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