Jana Sena chief Pawan Kalyan.
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Chennai: In a surprising development, Jana Sena Party, an ally of the ruling BJP at the Centre, MP Tangella Uday Srinivas arrived in Chennai, sparking speculation that he will attend a meeting of the Joint Action Committee (JAC) on Delimitation convened by Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin here on Saturday.
However, the Kakinada Lok Sabha MP told DH that he will merely handover a letter from his party founder and deputy chief minister Pawan Kalyan to Stalin. “I don’t know the contents of the letter. It is a sealed cover which will be handed over to the Tamil Nadu CM,” Srinivas said before his flight took off from Delhi to Chennai.
However, DMK sources said their understanding is that the JSP representative is in Chennai to attend the meeting on their invitation. A delegation of PWD Minister E V Velu and Rajya Sabha MP P Wilson had handed over the invitation from Stalin to Kalyan’s Officer on Special Duty (OSD) on March 12 in Amaravati, the state’s capital.
The development comes a week after Pawan Kalyan waded into the language row by seeking to know why Tamil films are dubbed in Hindi if the state was against the language.
Chief Ministers of Kerala and Telangana, Pinarayi Vijayan and Revanth Reddy, and deputy chief minister of Karnataka, D K Shivakumar will attend the meeting, while the TDP will not be represented.