VISAKHAPATNAM: Praja Rajyam Party’s (PRP) founderpresident Chiranjeevi appealed to people to cast their votes in favour of the PRP, because only then they would be able to see the `change’ they desired in the State.
Addressing a mammoth crowd from his chariot during the Praja Ankita Yatra, the roadshow which was kickstarted at Sriharipuram under the Visakhapatnam-West Assembly constituency here today, Chiranjeevi opined that the elections in the State were not a battle among political parties to come to power and govern, but a war between ‘morality’ and ‘corruption’.
He was people’s weapon in this war to defeat ‘corruption’ in the State, Chiranjeevi added.
Coming down heavily on the TDP and the Congress, Chiranjeevi said in its last five-year tenure, the Congress government had deceived lakhs of poor people in the State by making false promises and indulging in illicit practices.
Criticising the TDP’s nine-year regime, Chiranjeevi said except for the development of the IT sector in Hyderabad, TDP chief Nara Chandrababu Naidu had not seen poor people’s hunger, he added.
Both the TDP and the Congress governments in the State had failed to lead the State on the path of development, he added.
Hence, to see clean governance in the State, people should think well and send good MLAs to the Assembly by exercising their franchise, Chiranjeevi said. But, this could be possible only if contestants of the PRP were elected, Chiranjeevi opined.
Chiranjeevi promised that if the PRP was voted to power in the State, it would provide all the essential welfare schemes to the people, including houses to the poor in rural and urban areas.
The road-show went through Gajuwaka, Kancharapalem, Jagadamba Junction and Seethammadhara.