The Congress party has unveiled its list of candidates for six Lok Sabha and 12 legislative assembly seats in Andhra Pradesh, as announced in the Central Election Committee meeting chaired by Congress national president Mallikarjun Kharge.
According to the release issued by the All India Congress Committee, the candidates for the five Lok Sabha constituencies are as follows: Visakhapatnam (Pulusu Satyanarayana Reddy), Anakapalle (Vegi Venkatesh), Eluru (Lavanya Kavuri), Narasaraopet (Garnepudi Alexander Sudhakar), Nellore (Koppula Raju), and Tirupati (Chinta Mohan).
Additionally, candidates for 12 assembly seats have been declared: Tekkali (Killi Kruparani), Bhimli (Addala Venkata Varma Raju), Visakhapatnam South (Vasupalli Santhosh), Gajuwaka (Lakkaraju Rama Rao), Araku Valley (Setti Gangadharanswamy), Narsipatnam (Ruthala Sriramamurthy), Gopalapuram (Sodadasi Martin Luther), Yerragondapalem (Budhala Ajitha Rao), Parchur (Nallagorla Siva Srilakshmi Jyothi), Santhanuthalapadu (Vijesh Raj Palaparthi), Gangadhara Nellore (Ramesh Babu Deyala), and Puthalapattu (MS Babu).
The upcoming elections for both the Assembly and Lok Sabha in Andhra Pradesh are scheduled for May 13, with vote counting set for June 4.
In the Andhra Pradesh Assembly, which comprises 175 seats, a party needs at least 88 seats to form a government. In the 2014 Assembly elections, the TDP led by Chandrababu Naidu secured a majority with 102 seats, while the YSRCP led by Jagan Mohan Reddy won 67 seats. In the 2019 elections, the YSRCP emerged victorious with a massive mandate, winning 151 seats, and relegating the TDP to 23 seats.
The Lok Sabha elections, encompassing 543 seats across the country, will be conducted in seven phases starting April 19, with vote counting for both Lok Sabha and assembly elections slated for June 4.