On the day when Telugu Desam Party president and former Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu released his first list of 13 candidates for Lok Sabha elections, the YSR Congress party ridiculed him for lacking original candidates to give the party tickets.
On Friday, the TDP chief announced Kinjarapu Rammohan Naidu for Srikakulam, Mathkumilli Bharath for Visakhapatnam, Ganti Harish Madhur for Amalapuram, Putta Mahesh Yadav for Eluru, Kesineni Sivanath for Vijayawada, Pemmasani Chandrasekhar for Guntur.
Similarly, Lavu Sri Krishna Devarayalu was given the MP ticket for Narasaraopet, T Krishna Prasad for Bapatla, Vemireddy Prabhakar Reddy for Nellore, Daggumalla Prasad Rao for Chittoor, Balusupati Nagaraju (Panchalingala Nagaraju) for Kurnool, Byreddy Shabari for Nandyal, and B K Parthasarathi for Hindupur.
Of these 13 candidates, Lavu Srikrishna Devarayalu and Vemireddy Prabhakar Reddy are from YSRCP.
Similarly, another YSRCP leader Magunta Raghava Reddy, son of YSRCP MP Magunta Srinivasulu Reddy, is likely to get the ticket for Ongole Lok Sabha seat.
YSRCP general secretary V Vijay Sai Reddy tweeted that some of the TDP-JSP Parliament candidates are former @YSRCParty leaders.
“Where are your leaders? Why is the opposition scared to promote leaders from its cadres like we do? Why do they not trust their cadres? Looks like it will be the YSRCP Team vs. Defectors,” he said.
