Election2024 : In Andhra Pradesh, the election manifesto of Telugu Desam, Janasena and BJP alliance did not include Prime Minister Modi’s photo.
Elections for 25 Lok Sabha constituencies and 175 assembly constituencies in Andhra Pradesh will be held in a single phase on March 13. The ruling YRS Congress party is contesting alone.
Similarly, Chandrasekhara Rao’s Telugu Desam Party and Pawan Kalyan’s Janasena Party, BJP, which are the opposition parties, have formed an alliance and are meeting in the elections. Telugu Desam, Janasena and BJP are contesting in 144, 21 and 10 seats respectively. As far as the Lok Sabha is concerned, 17, 2 and 6 constituencies are contested.
Yesterday in Vijayawada, the alliance election promise statement was released at the residence of Chandrasekhara Rao in Undavalli. In it, various promises were made to farmers, women and youth. Various promises were made that the pension would be increased to 4000 rupees and an incentive of 10 thousand rupees would be given to the volunteers.
In this election manifesto, it was said that only the photos of Telugu Desam and Janasena party leaders were included and Prime Minister Modi’s photo was not included. This created quite a stir in the political circles. Also, Andhra state BJP in-charge Siddharth Nath Singh, who attended the function yesterday, refused to accept the election promise statement and became a controversy.
Criticizing the incident, YSR Congress president and Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Jagan Mohan Reddy said that Chandrababu Naidu’s photos were prominently displayed over PM Modi’s photo in the manifesto, and before releasing their manifesto, they received a call from the BJP headquarters. It is not acceptable to have PM Modi’s photo on it. He criticized that it showed how unfulfilled were the BJP’s promises.
Explaining about this election manifesto controversy, Chandrasekhara Rao said that the National Democratic Alliance has an election manifesto at the national level. We have issued this manifesto only after consultation with the Bharatiya Janata Party. He mentioned that the opinions of all the coalition parties in the election field have been included in it.
