Accordingly Jana Sena chief Pawan Kalyan recently announced that his party would contest in 175 Assembly constituencies in the 2019 Andhra Pradesh elections. Previously he also introduced his party's political strategist Vasudev, known as Dev. Meanwhile the development amused many, as Dev reportedly was once a part of the BJP from Hyderabad’s Chintal Basti.
Meanwhile several videos of speeches made by Vasudev and his pictures with BJP leaders are being shown in the media. Moreover at the time of the announcement, Vasudev claimed he had over a decade of experience in electioneering and campaigning, had been working with Pawan Kalyan for more than 10 months, and that he can't speak "good Telugu". Furthermore videos showed Vasudev speaking fluent Telugu at a BJP event. The BJP, however, said that they don't have any association with Vasudev.
Furthermore when responding to Jayadev Galla’s
allegation, the Indian Political Action Committee (founded by Prashant Kishor),
the election strategist for the YSR Congress Party and the BJP in 2014, I-PAC
ruled out any association with Vasudev. Moreover when speaking to TNM, a senior
representative of I-PAC said, "Our organisation doesn't have any
relationship with a person of that name, and neither had such an association in
any of the places we worked.
