Who is Dev? Inquiries are here!!!

Hyderabad, May 04: Pawan Kalyan announced Dev as the party's chief political strategist recently. Dev, who has been working with the party for 10 months, would focus on election plans and other matters, Kalyan said in a party release.

Who is Dev, the political strategist of Jana Sena party, and where is he from? After Jana Sena chief Pawan Kalyan introduced Dev as his party political strategist, several party leaders and others started inquiring about him. And the results startled many.

Vasudev alias Dev is a native of Hyderabad and a well-known figure to the people of Chintala Basthi at Khairatabad in Hyderabad. He changed his name to Dev and claimed that he was from another state.

JSP leaders admitted that they were not aware that the so-called strategist's actual name was Vasudev and that he was closely related to Congress leader and former deputy chief minister Damodar Rajanarasimha.

In fact, the Congress leader admitted to the meida that Vasudev was his nephew and said as far as he knew, Vasudev was still a member of the BJP.

Inquiries revealed that Vasudev had tried for a BJP ticket for Sanathnagar assembly constituency, but as part of alliance, it had gone to the TDP.

"After that, nobody knows how he had become political strategist. He claims to have a team of 40 members, but nobody knows that the name of his organisation is and for which party it had worked in the past," they said.