Praja Rajyam - District In Charges

1.Ranga Reddy- Katti Padma Rao

2.Sree Kakulam- Kagitham Narsi Reddy

3.Vijayanagaram- Haribabu Naidu

4.Vizag- Thammineni Seetharam

5.East Godhavari- Vidhyadhar Rao

6.West Godhavari- Vanga Geetha.

7.Krishna - Yalamanchali Sivaji

8.Guntur- Kamineni Sreenivas

9.Prakasham- Vanki Penchalaiah

10.Nellore- Rehaman

11.Kadapa- Thota Threemurthulu

12.Chittoor-Veerapaneni Yalamanda Rao

13..Karnool- Jyothula Nehuru

14.Ananathapuram-NV Prasad, Sreenivas Goud

15.Hyderabad- Dr Vinay

16.Karimnagar- Raja Reddy

17.Warangal- Naragoni

18.Khammam- Ramhohan Naidu

19.Mahaboonagar- Narisimha Reddy

Nalgonga, Adilabad and other districts will be announced soon.

These in charge persons are to take responsibility of praja rajyam party.

Finally, Vijaya Dasami has been chosen as the auspicious day for Prajarajyam chief Chiranjeevi to launch the "meet the people" yatra.

The first leg of the yatra, which is to commence on October 9, will cover the entire North Andhra region comprising Vijayanagaram, Srikakulam and Visakhapatnam districts. The date was announced by party spokespersons P Prabhakar and P Mitra on Wednesday.

Meanwhile, C V Sesha Reddy, a senior Congress leader and PCC vice president, joined the Prajarajyam Party. Reddy who hails from Nellore district met Chiranjeevi on Wednesday morning at his Jubilee Hills residence and expressed his wish to join the party. Later, he was introduced to the media by Mitra.

Reddy, a follower of former chief minister N Janardhan Reddy, said infighting and rampant groupism in the Congress were reasons for his joining the new party.

Talking to the media, Mitra said Chiranjeevi would visit the Arasavilli Sun temple and perform puja before undertaking his yatra in Srikakulam district. "He will tour the three districts continuously for nine days and take a break to come back to Hyderabad."
Chiranjeevi will visit Gangadevi Palle, a model panchayat in Warangal district on October 2 on the occasion of Gandhi Jayanti. The delivery systems developed in the village and "swaparipalana" (self rule) have attracted national attention. Chiranjeevi will study the self rule being practised in the village.

Before setting off for the village, Chiranjeevi will hoist the party flag at the party office as part of the "Vooroora Prajarajyam" week.

Later, he will participate in the tenth anniversary of the Blood Bank run by his trust and donate blood on the occasion.

When he was a movie star, heroines lined up to act with Chiranjeevi. In his new role as a politician, however, he is finding it difficult to rope in a heroine to campaign for his party. Unlike other political parties, where heroines of yesteryears are heading women’s wings, Chiranjeevi’s party is facing a shortage of a female face. Even though actor Suhasini’s name did the rounds for some time, there was no concrete result. After she denied that she was joining the PR, the party’s camp managers have now launched a hunt for a veteran heroine who can campaign for the party.

Even though, the Congress and the Telugu Desam are not led by film personalities, the women’s department of both the parties have yesteryear’s film heroines on their side. The TD women’s wing, Telugu Mahila’s president, Roja, was a known film actor in Telugu and Tamil film industry. She unsuccessfully contested in the 2004 Assembly elections. The Congress state leadership succeeded in adding glamour to the party by roping in yesteryear heroines Jeevitha and Jayasudha.

Telugu cine hero, Rajsekhar and his actor wife Jeevitha, had joined the Congress a few months ago.

Another top heroine, Jayasudha, has also pledged her support for the Congress. The PR leaders are now seeking a heroine to head the party’s women wing. Suhasini, Sumalata, Madhavi, Vijayashanti, Radha, Radhika, Roja and Nagma were the top heroines who acted with Chiranjeevi.

Now Vijayashanti is espousing the Telangana cause and Radhika is with the DMK. Sumalata married Ambarish, a former Union minister from Karnataka, whereas Madhavi settled in United States. Radha’s whereabouts are not known. Almost all the heroines who acted with the actor are now busy in their new endeavours. This has made it difficult for the new politician to find a suitable heroine who to add glamour to the Praja Rajyam.

The Congress Legislature Party said actor Chiranjeevi was ignorant about SEZs and levelling baseless allegations against the Congress government. The major industries minister, Dr J. Geetha Reddy, and the government chief whip, Mr N. Kiran Kumar Reddy, said Chiranjeevi visit to Polepally near Jadcherla was to gain political mileage by whipping up passions of the farmers who had given land for the SEZ.

"Most shocking is that he was accompanied by the former major industries minister, Mr K. Vidyadhara Rao, who was instrumental in land acquisition for the SEZ during TD rule," she said. The TD government had brought the SEZ to Polepally from Khammam. Dr Geetha Reddy said Chiranjeevi did not know that the SEZ was framed by the Centre, and states have no role in it and expressed surprise that Chiranjeevi and Mr Vidyadhar Rao did not know this.

Fans of Nandamuri Balakrishna and Chiranjeevi clashed at Kakatiyanagar in Narasaraopet town on Sunday evening, hurling stones and bottles at each other. Trouble broke out when fans of Balakrishna tore poster of Chiranjeevi in Kakatiyanagar. About 200 Balakrishna’s fans took out a rally from Ravipadu village near Narasaraopet.

The Praja Rajyam president, Chiranjeevi, fumbled on question of how he will solve contentious issues troubling the state, and over on the "itinerary of his maiden political tour across the state". His standard reply over the last month on any important issue has been: "We are studying it." A press conference on Sunday showed that Chiranjeevi was still grappling with policies on key issues.

Even though he visited farmers who will be displaced by the Special Economic Zone at Polepally and weavers at Sircilla, the PR chief failed to answer related queries. Angered by a volley of questions by mediapersons, a visibly upset Chiranjeevi tried to end the meeting abruptly saying: "I am not an IAS officer to know about every issue."

Earlier, referring to suicide by Sircilla weavers, the PR chief questioned the apathy of the government towards them. "Please concentrate on the welfare of weavers and curb suicides rather than criticising my visits,’ Chiranjeevi said. When asked how the PR planned to alleviate sufferings of weavers, he said: "We are examining the issue and will announce our policy soon."

The PR president replied on the same lines on restoration of land to poor farmers whose lands were acquired by SEZs, industries and other projects in the state.

Interestingly, Chiranjeevi was not sure when his maiden state-wide tour will begin. Referring to reports in a section of media that he will start his yatra on October 2, Chiranjeevi said: "It is strange that I come to know about my tour itinerary through the media. We are still to plan it. I am not sure of the date, but I will start the yatra in Srikakulam much before Dasara."

The PR chief said that his party membership drive would start on Gandhi jayanti. A top leader of the party told this newspaper at Srikakulam on Sunday that the yatra will start at Itchapuram but the date has not been confirmed. Astrologers had said Itchapuram was auspicious.

Party leaders Chegondi Hariram Jogaiah, Dr Vinay, Banguluru Ravi, Allu Aravind and two advisors of Pavan Kalyan held a meeting in the roads and building guest house in the afternoon to discuss the venue of public meetings and the route map of the yatra.

The Chiru Rath is finally all set to roll from first week of October from north coastal region. In his first leg beginning October 5, Chiranjeevi will tour Srikakulam, Vizianagaram and Visakhapatnam.

Announcing this here on Sunday, Chiranjeevi said PRP would also take up a massive programme of tree planting and other socially relevant programmes. October 5 is the tentative date and he would cover about 50 kms per day. He would then take a five-day break and then visit three Telangana districts. The details of his Telangana tour were being finalised and will be announced on Monday, he said. This would be followed by a tour of Rayalaseema.

He said his party would not stop at planting the saplings. It will ask the party workers to take up the responsibility of nurturing the saplings into big trees, he said.

Replying to a question on the appointment of various committees in the party, he said it would begin only after the enrolment of the members. But before that the party would take up state-wide programme of flag hoisting week in every town and village which would herald the party’s political activity on a large scale. The party flags will be hoisted in every village from October 2 and the programme will be known as "Vuroora Prajarajyam" (Prajarajyam in every village). This would be followed by enrolment of party members and inauguration of offices in the districts and mandals. When asked about inviting his daughter Srija for his campaign Chiranjeevi said he does not want children to be dragged into the campaign. "Lot of people want to campaign for me. So, where is the need to rope in children," he added.

Expressing anguish at the growing number of suicide cases among weavers in Sircilla, Chiranjeevi said instead of attacking him for his visit to the area, the Congress leaders should concentrate on giving confidence to the weavers. "None of the steps taken by the government had instilled confidence among them and the government needs to explain the reasons for the pathetic situation," he said.