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Elated Chiru hits the road

Back in action: Praja Rajyam president K. Chiranjeevi during a road show at Kandukur in Prakasam district on Wednesday.

KANDUKUR (Prakasam dt.) : As the High Court lifted restrictions on road shows, Praja Rajyam Party received a boost in its campaign.

Praja Rajyam president, Chiranjeevi, who heard the news at about 5 p.m. immediately plunged into action and held road shows over a stretch of 6 kms in Kandukur town, where hundreds of people, lined on either side of the road and lustily cheered him, throwing petals, reminding one, the days of NTR’s campaign in 1983.

He thanked the High Court for responding to his pleas on lifting restrictions on road shows.

Buoyed by the response, he promised to provide free education from KG to PG to economically backward classes on par with SCs, STs and BCs. Women heartily responded when he announced a package to supply essential commodities for just Rs.100 a month.

He said that he was indebted to Kandukur because both his houses at Hyderabad and Bangalore were constructed by masons from this place.

He said that hundreds of people were migrating to cities in search of work even today because successive governments neglected rural areas.

Praja Rajyam, if elected to power, would provide training and employment to youth at their own places. He posed for photographs donning himself as shepherd and construction worker keeping in view the predominant population of Yadavas and Wadderas in Kandukur.

When people represented about repairs to Rallapadu project he quipped that Congress government would take up only new projects, that is commissions to government. Though the government took up 56 projects at a cost of Rs.175 lakh crore to provide irrigation to over a crore acres, it achieved only 14 lakh acres irrigation potential till date. Most of the money had gone into the pockets of politicians, he alleged.

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