Pawan Kalyan’s West Godavari tour started on grand note at Bhimavaram and thousands of people attended his meeting yesterday. As usual , he made fierce comments on Chandrababu, Jagan and Lokesh. One interesting thing is, of late, he has been demanding chief minister of Andhra Pradesh to conduct Panchayat polls at the earliest.

It is known that Panchayat polls are due in the state and government and state election commission has to start preparation to conduct Panchayat elections. There has been no news on that front so far. Pawan Kalyan started slamming Chandrababu for not conducting Panchayat elections as he fears the defeat in Panchayat elections. This is nothing but provoking from Pawan but there is a reason for that.

Usually leaders and cadres join the parties before elections. These Panchayat elections is a very good opportunity for new political parties to join the cadres and leaders at low level of hierarchy into their party. The aspirants ranging from ward counsellor to MPTC, ZPTC chairman – all become active during these local elections. It will be a huge opportunity for new party to build the cadre at ground level.

Actually, when PRP started in 2008 it didn’t have an opportunity to contest local polls before 2009 elections. Because of this, only aspirants at MLA and MP level join the party but the party remained weak at ground level and this reflected in 2009 general elections. On the other hand, local elections of 2013 helped YSRCP as it happened just before 2014 elections and YSRCP strengthened at booth level and village level and that reflected in general elections in 2014.

So, it is clear that Pawan wants to strengthen his party at ground level before 2019 elections using this local polls and that’s the reason he is demanding to conduct Panchayat polls at the earliest.