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The caller two-day sojourn of HRD Minister Nara Lokesh, the maiden 1 aft his elevation arsenic the Telugu Desam Party’s (TDP) Working President, has buoyed the enactment cadre successful Kadapa district, which was erstwhile considered the citadel of the Congress and aboriginal the YSR Congress Party (YSRCP).
From scoring a duck successful the 2019 wide elections, the TDP struggled hard to container 7 retired of the 10 Assembly seats successful the undivided Kadapa territory successful 2024, giving the enactment the much-needed boost successful the Rayalaseema heartland.
Even the YSRCP was reduced to its minimal people of 3 seats successful the district, which includes Pulivendula, represented by the enactment main and erstwhile Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy.
Similarly, the TDP mislaid the Kadapa Lok Sabha spot owed to the triangular combat witnessed successful the constituency, with the introduction of APCC president Y.S. Sharmila. TDP Polit Bureau subordinate and the past territory president Reddeppagari Srinivasa Reddy, who expected the enactment ticket, had to backmost retired astatine the past infinitesimal successful tune with the party’s dictate.
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The immense triumph for the TDP-led NDA Alliance successful 2024 could not person happened without the ascendant Reddy assemblage successful Rayalaseema preferring to sail with the TDP. Mr. Lokesh’s caller sojourn to the politically delicate district, which happened 2 years aft the enactment came to power, was marked by a deluge of developmental projects, but the expectations of the leaders and cadre are acold from met.
With the Election Commission announcing its docket for the information of 4 Rajya Sabha seats from Andhra Pradesh, the Reddy assemblage of Rayalaseema, which remained unrepresented for decades whenever the TDP was successful power, expects a breakthrough this time.
It whitethorn beryllium recalled that the TDP had provided a mates of opportunities to C. Ramachandraiah, hailing from the Kapu assemblage of Kadapa district, successful the past. It is hence the Reddy leaders of the portion were pinning hopes connected Mr. Lokesh’s sojourn to Kadapa and made the two-day sojourn a thumping success.
