It looks like Jana Sena Party headed by popular hero-turned-politician Pawan Kalyan is going to get disintegrated gradually after the announcement of the assembly election results in Andhra Pradesh on May 23.
Political observers have started comparing Jana Sena Party with Telangana Jana Samithi formed by former Osmania University professor M Kodandaram a few months before the Telangana assembly elections.
Kodandaram is also very popular as an activist and a fighter as he headed the Telangana movement in the capacity of chairman of Telangana political joint action committee.
But when it came to fighting the electoral battle, Kodandaram proved a miserable failure and none of its candidates could secure a deposit in the assembly elections.
Before and after the elections, several leaders who joined Telangana Jana Sena with a big hope on Kodandaram’s leadership, left him one after the other. And there are hardly anybody left with him now.
In the case of Pawan Kalyan, too, people fear a similar situation may arise. After generating a lot of euphoria, the Jana Sena Party failed to make much impact on the electorate in the Andhra Pradesh elections.
Though it’s position is not as bad as TJS – there is a possibility that it might win two or three MLA seats and an MP seat and secure a considerable vote share, it might not sustain for long as was the case with TJS in Telangana.
Already, leaders who joined Jana Sena with high hopes, have started making a quiet exit.
Pawan Kalyan’s close confident and Jana Sena Party treasurer M Raghavaiah has resigned, allegedly complaining over lack of importance to seniors in the party. Similarly, Jana Sena spokesperson Addepalli Sridhar too called it quits to the party.
There have been reports of several other lower-rung leaders quitting the party due to lack of any activity in the party and also internal dissensions. Yet, Pawan has confined himself to his house without breathing any confidence into the party cadre.
As such, there is no party organizational structure and whatever Pawan had built before the elections is now crumbling, say sources.
