Telugu Desam Party president and former Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu on Thursday announced the second list of candidates for 34 more assembly seats for the upcoming assembly elections.
With this, Naidu has so far announced candidates for 128 seats, out of 144 seats his party would be contesting, after sharing the remaining 31 seats with the Jana Sena Party and the Bharatiya Janata Party. The names of another 16 candidates are still pending clearance.
Among those who got the TDP tickets in the second list are: Gorantla Buchaiah Chowdary for Rajahmundry (rural), Chintamaneni Prabhakar for Denduluru, Pulivarthi Nani for Chandragiri, Challa Ramachandra Reddy for Punganuru, Bojjala Venkata Sudhir Reddy for Sri Kalahasti, N Varadarajulu Reddy for Proddaturu, Yarapathineni Srinivas Rao for Gurajala and Palla Srinivasa Rao for Gajuwaka.
Vemireddy Prashanti, who defected from YSR Congress party along with her husband and Rajya Sabha member Vemireddy Prabhakar Reddy, has been given the TDP ticket from Kovvur assembly constituency.
Former minister Anam Ramnarayana Reddy, who was till recently representing Venkatagiri assembly constituency on YSRCP ticket, has been given his original seat of Atmakuru.
Similarly, Palle Sindhura Reddy has been given the party ticket from Puttaparthi in place of her father Palle Raghunath Reddy.
From Satyaveedu constituency, Naidu gave the party ticket to sitting MLA Koneti Adimulam, who defected from the YSRCP.
In all, seven women were given the TDP tickets out of 34 candidates whose names were released on Thursday.
