Jagan to campaign in Anantapur for by-polls

                                                                        

YSR Congress president Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy is all set to embark on a two-day tour of Anantapur district covering two Assembly segments of Anantapur and Rayadurgam, which are going to forthcoming by-polls.

An interesting fact about the current tour of Jaganmohan Reddy is that the YSR Congress is yet to announce its candidature for both the Assembly segments, while the main political parties TDP and the Congress have already done the same.

Although the candidature for the Anantapur Assembly has been uncontested within the party, with the candidate being the incumbent MLA B. Gurunath Reddy, the candidate for the Rayadurgam constituency is also learnt to be finalised with the party cadre getting down to work seeking the votes for the incumbent MLA Kapu Ramachandra Reddy himself.

But rumours did do the rounds sounding the names of other leaders for the Rayadurgam Assembly ticket. But, the recent by-poll preparations seem to put all such rumours to rest.

Jaganmohan Reddy would embark of road shows in both the Anantapur and the Rayadurgam constituencies and if previous road shows are anything to go by the attendance of people is also going to be considerable in size.

Although the Congress party, in a clever move, has declared its candidate a minority woman Murshida Begum, who is the wife of Anantapur Municipal minority Congress leader Rasheed, the YSR Congress expressed confidence that they would get the minority vote untouched.

They argue that the Congress candidate did not have either political experience of contesting an election nor the charisma to move away the minority votes from the YSR Congress.

Meanwhile, the contest in Rayadurgam is expected to a closer fight given the fact that Kapu Ramachandra Reddy does not enjoy the confidence of many of the mandal level and village level leaders besides, TDP candidate Deepak Reddy being a strong contender.

From Hindu