Pawan Kalyan's Janasena party managed to bag just one MLA seat in Andhra Pradesh elections and is set to miss out on regional party status.
A regional party should garner at least 6% vote share in assembly elections along with a minimum of 1 Lok Sabha and 2 MLA seats.
Janasena managed to get 6.7% vote share, but it did not win from any Lok Sabha segment and had to settle with a single MLA seat.
As a result, Janasena will not be getting state-level regional party status and might have to lose its election symbol(Glass Tumbler) as well.