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Former Congress MLA opts out of race

By Our Staff Reporter

GUNTUR, MARCH 17. The former Congress MLA from Mangalagiri constituency in Guntur district, Murugudu Hanumantha Rao, in a letter faxed on Wednesday to the Andhra Pradesh Congress Committee president, D. Srinivas, and the All-India Congress Committee president, Sonia Gandhi, requested them not to consider his name for nomination.

Mr. Hanumantha Rao had not mentioned any reason for his decision. However, the announcement of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) on Tuesday that it would field a candidate from Mangalagiri also in addition to Nidumolu segment in the Tenali Parliamentary constituency was being seen as the provocation.

Following failure of talks between the Congress and the CPI(M) at the State level, the Communist Party had announced names of the constituencies, but had held back the names of the candidates. Mr. Hanumantha Rao had defeated Nimmagadda Ramamohana Rao of the CPI(M) in 1999 Assembly elections by a margin of 11,024 votes, while the TDP-BJP alliance candidate Yadlapati Raghunadha Babu of the BJP had finished third. The Municipal Chairperson, Kandra Kamala of the Congress, is also an aspirant for the party ticket from Mangalagiri. Now it remains to be seen whether the party will support a CPI(M) candidate or field one of its candidates.

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