The Telugu Desam Party is all geared up to make the “Yuva Garjana” at Guntur on November 5 the “mother of all rallies” by mobilising about 15 lakh people and ferrying people from all parts of the State in trains, buses, lorries and other modes of transport.
The party wants it to make it the biggest show ever, as film stars from NTR’s family —Balakrishna, Kalyan Ram and Taraka Ratna – will make their first public appearance from the Telugu Desam platform, though it has lost some of its gloss with Junior NTR keeping away from the show.
The scale of the transportation arrangements could be gauged from the fact that the party has already hired 23 trains, paying a fare of Rs.9. 8 lakh each and sought more from the South Central Railway. The maximum of three trains will come from Chittoor, while two each will come from Kadapa, Kurnool, Nizamabad and Warangal and one each from other districts. In addition, it is planning to hire 500 buses to bring people from each district, besides innumerable lorries. “There is tremendous demand for more buses from the districts,” K. Rammohana Rao of the transportation committee told The Hindu.
With Telugu Desam president N. Chandrababu Naidu making it clear to the State Committee on Thursday that they should go all-out to make the “garjana” a benchmark for all future rallies, the leaders promptly got down to the business of working out the logistics from making arrangements for transportation, accommodation and food. The meeting itself is being held on a sprawling 300-acre site.
Meanwhile, the Telugu Desam Parliamentary Party leader K. Yerran Naidu released a CD and audio cassette that has a distinct Telangana touch in some of the songs. Others present were G. Butchaiah Choudary, S. Venugopala Chary and Kaluva Srinivasulu.
