Pawan Kalyan rules out joining BJP

August 27, 2016 21:42

Telugu film star and Jana Sena Party founder Pawan Kalyan today ruled out joining the BJP and asserted that his outfit was for the "Telugu people".

"A few months after Narendra Modi became Prime Minister, I attended his swearing-in ceremony, BJP national president came to Hyderabad and we met. The BJP president told me that regional parties have no future and hence wanted me to join his party. I told him clearly that Jana Sena was born for the Telugu people. It has a nationalist approach though it's a regional party," Kalyan recalled but in an apparent slip of tongue referred to Amit Shah as Satish Shah.

"I like the BJP but there is no commonality between it and Jana Sena on some issues," he pointed out.

He asserted that Jana Sena would only carry the people's 'jhanda' (flag) and agenda and nothing else.

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