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Actress and politician Jayaprada today confirmed that the Samajwadi Party (SP) will be fully supporting Chiranjeevi’s Praja Rajyam party in the ensuing elections. Talking to the media today, she said that Chiranjeevi who shone bright as the megastar of Tollywood would also be the megastar in politics. Along with her, the SP leaders Amar Singh and Jaya Bachchan are expected to meet Chiranjeevi and discuss the matters related to the alliances. This meet is viewed as vital in the state politics as Amar Singh himself declared a couple of days back that an alliance was forged between PRP and SP. However, there is no word yet from the Chiru camp.

Nandamuri family members - Balakrishna, Harikrishna, NTR and Kalyanram - today had their breakfast with TDP supreme Chandrababu Naidu at his residence in Hyderabad. This interfamily conclave assumes immediate significance in the wake of Chiranjeevi’s launch of Praja Rajyam party and getting ready for a state tour. It is learnt that they took an in-depth view of strengthening the party cadres and strategies to bolster party’s image in the public and the future plan of action. The Nandamuri actors will be taking part in the proposed public meeting of the TDP at Guntur, once considered the bastion of the party. Though no official statement is there, many a time in the recent past, both the NTR family members and CBN sent signals into the public that they would fight the elections united if the need of hour comes.

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HYDERABAD: The Praja Rajyam party has sought to downplay the political significance of the meeting of Samajwadi Party leaders Amar Singh, Jaya Bachchan and Jayaprada with Mr. Chiranjeevi slated for Sunday.

It described the meeting as a ‘courtesy call’ by the Samajwadi party leaders to congratulate Mr. Chiranjeevi on launching his party.

When his attention was drawn to Mr. Singh’s statement that the SP was willing to join hands with Praja Rajyam in Andhra Pradesh and that the Bachchan family would even participate in the election campaign, party spokesman Parakala Prabhakar said, “let us hear from the horse’s mouth about it”.

Asked to react to CPI (M) secretary B.V. Raghavulu’s remark that they would discuss in the party’s Polit Bureau the issue of sailing with Praja Rajyam in the elections, Mr. Parakala said that his party leaders were presently preoccupied with creating the organisational structure and gauging people’s support. The Telugu Desam Party has derided SP’s attempts to move close to Praja Rajyam. TDP MP K. Yerran Naidu said the SP was hobnobbing with the Congress in Uttar Pradesh by holding seat adjustment talks with AICC general secretary Rahul Gandhi. Simultaneously, it was expressing interest in Praja Rajyam which was opposed to the Congress in the State. He said Mr. Chiranjeevi owed an explanation to the people. The BJP too described Mr. Singh’s move as ‘opportunistic’.

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HYDERABAD: AICC secretary Iqbal Singh has said that the gathering for AICC president Sonia Gandhi’s public meeting at Anantapur on Anantapur would surpass the crowd that attended the launch of the new party by actor Chiranjeevi in Tirupati last month.Addressing a press conference here on Friday after reviewing arrangements for AICC president Sonia Gandhi’s proposed visit to the State, Mr. Singh claimed that the Congress party would retain power with ease as there was no strong opposition party that could challenge it.

He ruled out any serious threat from the Praja Rajyam Party of actor Chiranjeevi.

There was lot of expectation about the new party and the public meeting, but the actor did not make any impact, he contended

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Hyderabad, Sept. 5: Nalini, the woman at the centre of a row over her inter-caste marriage, on Friday spoke out in support of the Praja Rajyam chief, Chiranjeevi. Nalini’s parents had alleged that the actor had forced their daughter to marry Chetan, the son of a well-known poet, K. Padma Rao.

“I am an adult and am allowed by law to make my own decisions. I got married on my own accord. Sir (Chiranjeevi) graced the wedding and came there to bless us,” she said. Ms Nalini said that she had not told her parents — Mr Subba Rao and Ms Mani Rao — about the marriage since they had reservations about the boy.

“I got married to him without the knowledge of my parents. Chiranjeevi sir had no role to play. He was present as a well-wisher and guardian,” she said. Earlier, the girl’s parents had appealed to the home minister, Mr K. Jana Reddy, and the Telugu Desam president, Mr N. Chandrababu Naidu, for help. Mr Jana Reddy advised the couple to file a police complaint and seek production of their daughter.

Hyderabad: A fraudster, who posed as the CEO of a bogus software company and also claimed to be a doctor and cheated many people, was nabbed by the Commissioners Task Force here on Friday.

Samanasa Venkata Ramana alias Srinu was arrested on credible information and police seized a car, laptops, credit cards and other fabricated documents from him, the Commissioner’s Task Force DCP V B Kamalasan Reddy told reporters.

“As Srinu had a desire to maintain a lavish lifestyle, he had resorted to stealing bicycles and motor cycles since 1999. He was sent to jail,” he said. Srinu had also committed theft of cars and credit cards, Reddy said. Railway Police arrested Srinu for stealing laptops, he added.
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‘It is the only alternative to Congress’

HYDERABAD: Praja Rajyam on Thursday asserted that it was the only political alternative to the ruling Congress in Andhra Pradesh. “People are looking for a change which we alone are capable of providing,” said spokespersons P. Mitra and Parakala Prabhakar.

Responding to Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy’s remarks on Wednesday that the Congress would win all except two seats in East and West Godavari districts, they said the Praja Rajyam candidates would romp home with a majrotity of 20,000 votes in every seat in the two districts.
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Hyderabad Sept. 4: Praja Rajyam chief Chiranjeevi has landed in a controversy with a couple alleging that he had played a role in forcing their daughter to marry the son of the Dalit poet, Katti Padma Rao. The actor’s aides said he had only attended the marriage as a guest. Mr Subba Rao and Mrs Vani of T. Gokavaram village in West Godavari district, told mediapersons that their daughter Nalini was abducted and brought to the city.  The couple said they came to the city after getting a phone call from their daughter informing that she was in the poet’s house in Erramanzil Colony.
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Hyderabad Sept. 4: The Praja Rajyam on Thursday declared that it would not enter into alliances with any party and presented itself as the only alternative to the Congress.
Speaking to the media after the TD leader, Mr Tammineni Sitaram joined the party, the Praja Rajyam spokespersons, Dr P. Mitra and Mr Parakala Prabhakar, termed the ruling party as “anti-people” and said the people were eagerly waiting to dethrone the government. Read the rest of this entry »