Hyderabad : Popular Telugu actor and Jana Sena chief Pawan Kalyan on Thursday announced that he will contest the Andhra Pradesh assembly elections in 2019. He made the announcement while addressing a public meeting in Anantapur.

Pawan said his party’s first office would come up in Anantapur. The actor-politician had on October decided to register himself as a voter in Eluru town of Andhra Pradesh.

Pawan, who is a voter in Hyderabad, had asked his aides to take necessary steps to transfer his name to the voters’ list in Eluru town in West Godavari district.

He once again targeted Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for denying special status to Andhra Pradesh and Telugu Desam Party (TDP) for accepting it.