YSR Congress party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy dropped as many as 12 sitting MLAs in the second list of candidates for the upcoming assembly elections, released on Tuesday night.
The dropped candidates include two ministers – Industries minister Gudivada Amarnath and municipal administration minister Adimulapu Suresh.
The other MLAs, who could not find their names in the list include: Golla Babu Rao (Payakaraopet-SC), Kondeti Chittibabu (P Gannavaram), Pendem Dorababu (Pithapuram), Jyothula Chanti Babu (Jaggampeta), Parvatha Purnachandra Prasad (Prathipadu), P V Sidda Reddy (Kadiri), K Chenna Kesava Reddy (Yemmiganur), Mohammad Mustafa (Guntur East), Chetti Palguna (Araku-ST) and Malladi Vishnu (Vijayawada Central).
Jagan reshuffled the candidates of some other MLAs and MPs, besides accommodating children/wives of a few other MLAs. For example, Kambala Jogulu, who represents Rajam-SC constituency, has been shifted to Payakaraopet-SC.
Kakinada MP Vanga Geetha has been moved to Pithapuram assembly constituency. State I&PR minister Chelluboyina Srinivasa Venugopala Krishna has been shifted to Rajahmundry (rural).
Similarly, K V Usha Sricharan has been moved from Kalyanadurg to Penukonda and Shankara Narayana who represents Penukonda has been named as MP candidate from Anantapur. Araku MP Goddeti Madhavi has been moved to Araku-ST assembly seat.
Sitting Paderu MLA Kottagulli Bhagya Lakshmi has been named as the MP candidate from Araku. Similarly, Vijayawada (West) MLA Vellampalli Srinivas Rao has been moved to Vijayawada (Central).
The relatives of YSRC leaders who were given the YSRC tickets are: Pilli Surya Prakash Rao, son of Rajya Sabha MP Pilli Subhash Chandra Bose from Ramachandrapuram, Tellam Rajya Lakshmi, wife of sitting MLA Tellam Balaraju from Polavaram (ST), Bhumana Abhinay Reddy, son of sitting MLA Bhumana Karunakar Reddy from Tirupati, Perni Krisha Murthy alias Kittu, son of sitting MLA Perni Venkatramaiah alias Perni Nani from Machilipatnam and Chevireddy Mohit Reddy, son of sitting MLA Chevireddy Bhaskar Reddy form Chandragiri.
