The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday announced its candidates for the upcoming Andhra Pradesh Assembly elections. In the alliance with TDP and Jana Sena, the party got 10 assembly seats and announced its candidates for all seats.
The former union minister Y Srujana Choudary, who failed to get a chance to contest in the Lok Sabha elections, is now contesting in the assembly polls from Vijayawada West constituency. Similarly, BJP national secretary Sathya Kumar, who also unsuccessfully tried to contest in the Lok Sabha polls, is now contesting from Dharmavaram to the assembly.
BJP’s former legislature party leader Vishnukumar Raju and former minister Dr Kamineni Srinivasa Rao also again contested from their constituencies. Both of them won for the first time in 2014, when BJP was in alliance with BJP.
Former minister in Chandrababu Naidu cabinet, Adinarayana Reddy is also contesting from Jammalamadugu. In 2014, he had won as YSRCP MLA, but later defected into TDP and became minister in Naidu’s cabinet. After an unsuccessful contest in 2019 Lok Sabha elections from Kadapa, he joined BJP.
Meanwhile, some senior BJP leaders are expressing discontent for denying them seats, giving preference to `defectors’, whose loyalties to the party are suspicious. Former state president Somu Veerraju, Rajya Sabha member GVL Narasimha Rao and state vice president Vishnuvardhan Reddy, who failed to get party nomination were absent at the crucial party meetings held in Vijayawada.
Here is the list of candidates
· N Eswara Rao from Etcherla
· P Vishnu Kumar Raju from Visakhapatnam North
· Pangi Rajarao from Araku Valley
· M Shiva Krishnam Raju from Anaparthy
· Kamineni Srinivas Rao from Kaikalur
· YS Chowdary from Vijaywada West
· Bojja Roshanna from Badvel
· C Adinarayana Reddy from Jammalamadugu
· PV Parthasarathi from Adoni
· Y Satya Kumar from Dharmavaram
