In Telangana, PM Modi Shares Stage with Pawan Kalyan

Prime Minister Narendra Modi shared stage with actor-politician Pawan Kalyan on Tuesday in a move that was high on optics in Telangana, a state where the BJP is keen on expanding its footprint. The party has allotted eight seats to the actor's Jan Sena Party in the state, where Chandrababu Naidu's Telugu Desam Party will not be in the race. Pawan Kalyan's Jan Sena Party so far has not made a big impact at the hustings, but the BJP is hoping to get traction from the actor's big fan base in the state that has been ruled since its inception by K Chandrasekhar Rao's Bharat Rashtra Samithi.