Amaravathi: The Telugu Desam Party has decided to field two candidates for the Rajya Sabha elections and has dropped the move to field a third candidate.
TDP national president and chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu held prolonged discussions with senior leaders here on Saturday to gather their views on the elections and selection of the TTD trust board.
Sources said TDP cleared a second term for CM Ramesh, who is now in the Telangana quota and is retiring on April 2. He would be filling the vacant seat of T Devender Goud, who is retiring on April 2.
The other two seats are to be vacated by Congress members K Chiranjeevi and Renuka Chowdary.
While the Congress has no chance of retaining a seat, the TDP has the strength to wrest one seat from the Congress, while the other seat would go to the opposition YSR Congress.
Naidu is now seriously considering two names for the second seat — Beeda Mastan Rao, a former MLA from Kavali in Nellore district and Varla Ramaiah, AP Housing Corporation chairman.
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