Amaravati: Janasena party MLAs Tuesday elected party chief Pawan Kalyan as the floor leader in the Andhra Pradesh Assembly.
The move came ahead of NDA legislators’ meeting to elect TDP supremo N Chandrababu Naidu as their leader in the House.
Janasena Tenali legislator N Manohar proposed Pawan Kalyan’s name as the floor leader in the Assembly, which was unanimously supported by other members, the party sources said.
Janasena has 21 legislators in the 175-member House.
NDA won a landslide victory in Andhra Pradesh with a majority of 164 Assembly seats (TDP-135, Janasena-21 and BJP-8).