YSRC announces first list of 9 candidates for LS polls in AP
The YSR Congress Saturday night announced its first list of nine candidates for the April 11 Lok Sabha elections in Andhra Pradesh.
Party president Y S Jaganmohan Reddy is expected to announce the next list of candidates, possibly for all the 175 Assembly seats and the remaining 16 parliamentary constituencies on Sunday.
Only two old faces were found in the list of nine candidates announced late tonight as the YSRC chose fresh nominees for the Lok Sabha election.
A former inspector of police Gorantla Madhav, who had a feud with Anantapuramu MP J C Diwakar Reddy while in service, was named as YSRC candidate for the Hindupur Lok Sabha seat.
Y S Avinash Reddy and P V Midhun Reddy, who quit as MPs in June last protesting the denial of Special Category Status to AP, have been renominated from Kadapa and Rajampet respectively.
The other candidates are Madhavi (Araku-ST), Anuradha (Amalapuram-SC), Talari Rangaiah (Anantapuramu), Nandigam Suresh (Bapatla-SC), Sanjeev Kumar ...