As expected, YSR Congress party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy does a major reshuffling of candidates in the Lok Sabha and assembly constituencies in the third list of 21 candidates.
The YSRCP chief made six changes in the Lok Sabha constituencies. For Srikakulam, he is fielding Perada Tilak, who unsuccessfully lost the assembly elections from Tekkali against Telugu Desam Party candidate K Atchannaidu in 2019. He will now be taking on Atchannaidu’s nephew K Rammohan Naidu from Srikakulam Lok Sabha seat.
As was predicted, former Vizianagaram MP Botsa Jhansi Lakshmi, wife of state education minister Botsa Satyanarayana, will be contesting the Lok Sabha elections from Visakhapatnam, in place of M V V Satyanarayana, who will be contesting the assembly elections.
For Eluru Lok Sabha seat, Jagan has nominated a relatively newcomer Karumuri Sunil Kumar Yadav. While Kesineni Nani has been announced as the party candidate for Vijayawada Lok Sabha seat, state minister Gummaluru Jayaram has been announced as MP candidate from Kurnool.
For Tirupati Lok Sabha seat, Satyaveedu MLA Koneti Adimulam has been finalised in place of sitting MP M Gurumurthy, who has been moved as an MLA candidate from Satyaveedu.
Besides, Jagan finalised the names of MLA candidates for 15 seats. They are:
Icchapuram — Pirya Vijaya (ZP chairperson)
Tekkali - Duvvada Srinivas
Chintalapudi - Kambham Vijaya Rao
Darsi - Buchepalli Sivaprasada Reddy
Madanapalli - Nissar Ahmed
Rajampet - Akepalli Amarnath Reddy
Satyavedu - Maddela Guru Murthy
Kodumuru - Dr Satish
Pedana - Uppala Ramu
Penamaluru - Jogi Ramesh
Puthalapattu - M Sunil Kumar
Aluru - Busine Virupakshi
Gudur - Meruga Murali
Chittoor - Vijayananda Reddy
Madanapalle - Nissar Ahmed
Rayadurgam - Mettu Govinda Reddy
