“Polavaram Sadhana Yatra aimed at ensuring people's welfare”

TIRUVURU (Krishna dt): Hitting out at criticism by rival political parties, Praja Rajyam president Chiranjeevi on Sunday asserted that his ongoing “Polavaram Sadhana Yatra” in Krishna district was truly aimed at ensuring people's welfare and not something being carried out for selfish political gains over other political parties.
The party cadres and fans thronged the place where Mr. Chiranjeevi stayed overnight here before beginning his second day's programmes.
There was an upbeat mood among the activists, even as he first addressed their meeting as part of his plans to enthuse and involve them more in the party activities.
Addressing the activists' meeting in the morning, Mr. Chiranjeevi said that with their full support, the party would be strengthened manifold in the days to come and that the dreams of rival parties of Praja Rajyam's weakening would remain defeated. He said that he would come again to exclusively meet the party activists sometime later, saying that there was not much time to devote for enquiring about local party activities as of now.
Mr. Chiranjeevi talked repeatedly about efforts to be made to build the party structure in a more focussed way, for which he would make special efforts and carry along with him leaders from all over the State.
He spoke words of assurance, saying there were many attempts to harm the interests of Praja Rajyam, but all those would be foiled effectively with collective effort.
Mr. Chiranjeevi reiterated that their party was making sincere efforts on the issue of getting national project status to Polavaram and that they would welcome all other political parties to join the campaign for this noble cause.
He explained that going by the allocation of funds by the Government as of now, there was no guarantee that Polavaram would be completed in the next 40 to 50 years, as costs would go on increasing enormously Later addressing a press conference, Mr. Chiranjeevi refuted criticism of rival parties saying that he started Polavaram campaign true to his belief that agitation would not take birth in Delhi but in “gully”(street).