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They share a dubious record

By Our Special Correspondent

RAJAHMUNDRY, APRIL 6. The two candidates for the Rajahmundry Lok Sabha seat -- Kantipudi Sarvarayudu of the BJP and Vundavilli Arun Kumar of the Congress -- can `boast' of a striking similarity in their track record.

They have no history of an electoral victory. But, both of them have lost, that too twice. Mr. Arun Kumar, who translated Rajiv Gandhi's speeches and does the same for the AICC president, Sonia Gandhi, contested from the Rajahmundry Assembly seat in 1994 and lost to the TDP candidate by 6,000 votes. In 1999 he was in the fray and lost by 23,000 votes to the TDP candidate.

Mr. Sarvarayudu, at whose house the BJP president, M. Venkaiah Naidu, stays during his visits here, was the BJP candidate from the Rajahmundry Parliamentary seat in 1991 and in 1996. He forfeited his deposit on both the occasions. Now, both are pitted against each other, courtesy their party presidents -- Mr. Naidu and Ms. Gandhi.

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