Praja Rajyam Party


The Praja Rajyam Party is political party in India. PRP is a Centre to centre-left party

Formation

The first public meeting was held by Chiranjeevi on 26 August 2008, at Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh. He addressed a gathering of about a million people and announced the party name and its agenda. The party flag, which has white colour making up 3/4 of the height at the top, and the bottom 1/4 filled with green, was unveiled at the meeting. In the middle of the flag a red coloured sun symbol is encircled with a yellow line.
The green colour is an "acknowledgement to the farmers", red symbolises "change and revolution", the yellow border around the sun symbolises "happiness in every home", white symbolises "clean governance and transparency", and the sun in the middle emphasises the need for change and revolution.

Merger with NTPP

The Nava Telangana Praja Party headed by former minister Tulla Devender Goud was merged with the Praja rajyam Party. NTPP was a political entity campaigning for Telangana State formation, and had a strong base in the Telangana Region of Andhra Pradesh. Post-merger, Goud was made the Vice-President of Praja Rajyam Party.
Chiranjeevi at one time expressed his support for the efforts to forge a "Fourth Front" at the national level.

2009 Election

They won only 18 out of a possible 294 assembly seats. The party leader, Chiranjeevi contested in two assembly seats - Tirupathi and Palakollu - and won only in Tirupathi. It polled 18% votes.

List of Members Elected

S.NoConstituencyElected MLA
1.NirmalAlleti Maheshwar Reddy
2.BalkondaAnil Kumar Eravathri
3.BheemiliMuttamsetti Srinivasa Rao
4.GajuwakaChinthalapudi Venkataramaiah
5.AnakapalleGanta Srinivasa Rao
6.PendurthiPanchakarla Ramesh Babu
7.PithapuramVanga Geetha
8.Kakinada RuralKurasala Kannababu
9.PeddapuramPantam Gandhi Mohan
10.KothapetaBandaru Satyananda Rao
11.TadepalligudemEli Venkata Madhusudhanarao
12.Vijayawada WestVelampalli Srinivasa Rao
13.Vijayawada EastRavi Yalamanchili
14.GiddalurAnna Rambabu
15.Nellore CityMungamuru Sridhara Krishna Reddy
16.AllagaddaBhuma Shobha Nagi Reddy
17.BanaganapalleKatasani Rami Reddy
18.TirupatiKonidala Chiranjeevi

Manifesto

On 6 February 2011, PRP chief Chiranjeevi announced that his party would be merged with the Indian National Congress party after a meeting with Congress chief Sonia Gandhi. The merger was proposed by A.K. Antony, Minister of Defence. He stated that he had originally been compelled to create the PRP on a platform of fighting corruption and ensuring social justice but that Congress now had a good record of fighting corruption elsewhere.
It was asserted by political observers that Chiranjeevi's move may have been prompted by his loss of support in the wake of his own strong anti-Telangana stance in previous months. It was argued in the press that Chiranjeevi's move would particularly strengthen Congress' hand in retaining the Kapu vote, as the PRP had done particularly well among them.