Pastors urge all Christians to vote for Congress

Pastors and Christian religious heads from the city and district expressed the view that only the Congress can safeguard and uphold the secular fabric of the Constitution that guarantees all citizens the freedom to pursue the religion of their choice. Thousands of pastors and Christian religious leaders participated in a meeting organised by Visakhapatnam Pastors Fellowship at the Municipal Stadium here on Friday.

Later giving details to newsmen, State Pastors Fellowship president Rev K. Pratap Sinha said

• Special Minority Corporation was established
• Subsidy of Rs.20,000 was being extended to Christians to visit Jerusalem
• Rs.15,000 worth material was being sanctioned to poor Christian couples
  

All these benefits were being extended to Christians in AP as nowhere else in the country, he said and gave full credit to Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy for these programmes.

Bishop K.R. Singh said that the Rajasekhara Reddy Government had introduced several welfare schemes for the poor .

Visakha Pastors Fellowship president M.A. Paul called for unity among the community members. The pastors would pray for the success of Rajasekhara Reddy from March 23 to April 23.

YSR is also a devout Christian and his son-in-law is a well known pastor in Andhra Pradesh and his vision is to construct Churches to spread the religion

His organization ANIL WORLD EVANGELISM (AWE) as Funds Facilitator for constructing Churches in the rural and semi-urban areas:

ANIL WORLD EVANGELISM (AWE) has been actively involved in supporting the poor Christian pastors and Christian Societies in building the new churches in the entire Andhra Pradesh, India by facilitating finances

VISION: Promoting church building construction in large scale across the length and the breadth of Andhra Pradesh and spreading the sweet aroma of knowledge of Jesus Christ through the churches

Mission: Raising 1000 God-sufficient churches with God's provisions

YSR's son-in-law caught red handed

Anil Kumar, son-in-law of Chief Minister Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy, and three more pastors were found in possession of Rs. 10.40 lakh in cash at a lodge in Karimnagar.

BJP corporator Bandi Sanjay alleged that the cash was brought by Mr. Anil Kumar for distribution to voters.

Mr. Anil Kumar had arrived in the town earlier in a helicopter (hmm CM's son in Law) and gone to a hotel room where other pastors were staying since the last two days. On the BJP’s complaint, police raided the hotel and seized the cash.

Later, more BJP leaders arrived and raised slogans against the pastors and the Chief Minister. The pastors also came out of their rooms and argued with them. The police then arrived there in large numbers, dispersed the mob and took the BJP leaders into custody.

YSR a devout Christian became Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh in 2004 and is the longest serving Congress chief minister.

NDA way ahead of UPA - Assured of 237 seats in coming elections

		LokasabhaPredictions as of April 2009
State / UT	Total No Of Seats	Congress	Cong Allies	BJP	BJP Allies	UNPA	Others
Andaman and Nicobar Islands	1	1	0	0	0	0	0
Andhra Pradesh	42	17	0	2	0	14	9
Arunachal Pradesh	2	2	0	0	0	0	0
Assam	14	4	0	4	6	0	0
Bihar	40	3	0	8	10	18	0
Chandigarh	1	1	0	0	0	0	0
Chhattisgarh	11	5	0	6	0	0	0
Dadra and Nagar Haveli	1	1	0	0	0	0	0
Daman and Diu	1	1	0	0	0	0	0
Delhi	7	2	0	5	0	0	0
Goa	2	1	0	1	0	0	0
Gujarat	26	9	0	17	0	0	0
Haryana	10	2	2	4	2	0	0
Himachal Pradesh	4	1	0	2	1	0	0
Jammu and Kashmir	6	1	2	0	0	3	0
Jharkhand	14	2	0	4	2	1	3
Karnataka	28	7	0	15	0	6	0
Kerala	20	7	3	1	0	8	1
Lakshadweep	1	1	0	0	0	0	0
Madhya Pradesh	29	10	0	18	0	1	1
Maharashtra	48	7	14	12	14	0	1
Manipur	2	1	0	0	0	0	1
Meghalaya	2	0	0	0	1	0	1
Mizoram	1	0	0	0	0	1	0
Nagaland	1	0	1	0	0	0	0
Orissa	21	5	0	10	0	6	0
Pondicherry	1	0	0	0	0	1	0
Punjab	13	4	0	4	5	0	0
Rajasthan	25	8	0	17	0	0	0
Sikkim	1	0	1	0	0	0	0
Tamil Nadu	39	4	8	0	0	0	27
Tripura	2	0	0	0	0	2	0
Uttaranchal	5	2	0	3	0	0	0
Uttar Pradesh	80	7	0	15	6	22	30
West Bengal	42	4	9	0	0	27	2
	543	120	40	148	47	110	76
	UPA	160
	NDA	195
	UNPA	110
	Others	76
NDA + TDP + AIADMK	237