Is the YSRC prepared to stop the Jana Sena march in the Rajanagaram area?

The Jana Sena party, which has expanded in strength and influence over three mandals in the East Godavari district, is engaged in a fierce battle for control of the Rajanagaram Assembly seat with the incumbent YSRC.

 

Jakkampudi Raja, the current MLA and YSRC candidate, is not depending only on his party comrades to stop the Jana Sena march, given the importance of the next elections. For the last three months, he has already made a number of lengthy trips around the area.

Conversely, JSP contender Battula Balarama Krishna and his relatives are making every effort and have been campaigning hard for the last three months. Recall that the two candidates are members of the Kapu community.

In Seethanagaram mandal, the Kamma group has a strong social and economic position, but in Rajanagaram and Korukonda mandals, the Kapu community is more powerful.

TDP candidate Pendurthi Venkatesh won the Rajanagaram Assembly seat in the 2009 and 2014 elections. The seat was established in accordance with the Delimitation Orders in 2009. But in the 2019 elections, the YSRC candidate defeated the TDP candidate for the seat.

Given the Kapu community’s influence over candidate selection, TDP has given Jana Sena the seat as part of their alliance for the next elections.

Battula Balarama Krishna, a newcomer to politics, pledged to establish junior and degree colleges and bring corporate-level education to elementary schools in order to provide pupils with high-quality education. The JSP candidate has informed the voters that he would work to get funding to install water tap connections in every home within the segment, pointing out the severe drinking water issue that exists in the district.

“Once I take office, I want to establish software technology parks in the region to create more job opportunities and stop graduates from moving to other states to find work,” he told TNIE.

In the meanwhile, Jakkampudi Raja, the 2024 candidate and district president of the YSRC, reaffirmed that in addition to fostering an atmosphere that encouraged the formation of over 400 enterprises in the constituency, he had created the Kalwacherla industrial park.

In addition to the beginning of the national highway to Vizianagaram from Rajamahendravaram via the agency region, he said that his pledge to build roads to every village has been realized since the road works from Seethanagaram to Rajamahendravaram are almost finished.

“The Janagaram constituency serves as a gateway to East Godavari, and those traveling from the states of Odisha, Chhattisgarh, and Telangana must pass through it. In order to better serve the requirements of the populace, the constituency’s infrastructure has been updated, including the development of hospitals,” he said.

People in the Rajanagaram Assembly segment, meantime, claim that for the previous several decades, numerous government projects have only been available on paper. There is a chronic acute drinking water deficit in the area, which is made worse by the summer heat. The RTC bus stops at Rajanagaram, Seethanagaram, and Korukonda are dilapidated and devoid of basic passenger facilities. Furthermore, the absence of bridges between the villages of Mulakallanka and Bobbilanka has emerged as a significant obstacle for both locals and farmers seeking to cross the Godavari River.