The Congress party in Andhra Pradesh headed by Y S Sharmila, sister of chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy, has put up the applications for sale for the candidates aspiring for the party tickets to contest the upcoming assembly and Lok Sabha elections in the state.
The Congress party on Wednesday started accepting applications from candidates.
According to AICC in-charge of Andhra affairs Manickam Tagore, the party will charge Rs 15,000 as the “donation” from the aspiring candidates of the reserved category and Rs 25,000 for the rest for the Lok Sabha.
It is Rs 10,000 for candidates (unreserved category) and Rs 5,000 for the reserved in case of assembly ticket. Applications will be accepted for the next two weeks, he said.
Tagore further said all the applications will be processed through the Pradesh Election Committee and afterward it will go through the screening committee of the AICC.
Then the list will be sent to the Congress Central Election Committee headed by President Mallikarjun Kharge.
“It (Congress) is a democratic party. Therefore, any Congress worker can come and apply,” Tagore said.
He said there is good response from the people to contest on Congress tickets and the donations can be made through ‘Donate for Desh,’ an online crowdfunding campaign.
Meanwhile, former APCC chief G Rudraraju said there is tremendous response from the public for the meetings of newly appointed state party president YS Sharmila.
Currently, Sharmila is on tour of north Andhra Pradesh to revive the ‘fortunes’ of the Congress party, which lost most of its support base on splitting the united Andhra Pradesh in 2014.
On Wednesday in Visakhapatnam, she alleged that her Chief Minister brother, YS Jagan Mohan Reddy, failed in getting special status for Andhra Pradesh which was promised during the state bifurcation.
