BJP announces its six Lok Sabha candidates from Andhra Pradesh
BJP announces its six Lok Sabha candidates from Andhra Pradesh
With the Lok Sabha Elections not much far away, BJP has announces six Lok Sabha candidates from Andhra Pradesh, that includes former CM Nallari Kiran Kumar Reddy and Daggubati Purandeswari.
Taking to his X, the BJP National Media Co-Head Sanjay Mayukh, in a post on X wrote that BJP will field its candidates in Araku (ST), Anakapalli, Rajamahendravaram, Narsapuram, Tirupati (SC) and Rajampet.
Former CM of composite Andhra Pradesh Nallari Kiran Kumar Reddy will contest from Rajampet Lok Sabha seat, even as BJP Andhra Pradesh State President Daggubati Purandeswari will contest from Rajamahendravaram Lok Sabha seat. Likewise, Kothapalli Geeta will contest from the Araku (ST) LS seat, while Bhupatiraju Srinivasa Varma will contest from Narsapuram Lok Sabha seat.
C.M. Ramesh, who switched loyalties from the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) to BJP soon after the 2019 elections, will contest from Anakapalli LS seat. Velagapalli Vara Prasad Rao, will contest from Tirupati LS seat.
In 2014, he won from the same constituency on the YSR Congress Party (YSRCP) ticket. Later, he entered the Andhra Pradesh Assembly as YSRCP’s Gudur MLA. BJP A.P.
Srinivasa Varma, Office Bearer, will contest from Narsapuram LS seat. Present Narsapuram MP Raghu Rama Krishnam Raju, who won on a YSRCP ticket in 2019, pinned hope that TDP, BJP or JSP would field him as a candidate from the seat. He, however, did not join any of these political parties but addressed the TDP-JSP meeting at Tadepalligudem.
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