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PRP fields new faces

VISAKHAPATNAM: Reminiscent of the TDP fielding fresh candidates way back in 1983, the fledgling Praja Rajyam Party (PRP), led by actor Chiranjeevi, has been successful in introducing several new candidates from the Lok Sabha and the Assembly constituencies in the district.

PRP’s top gun and general secretary Allu Aravind is the nominee from Anakapalle Lok Sabha but this is his first electoral foray. His Visakhapatnam and Araku counterparts Palla Srinivas and M. Simhachalam are also making their electoral debut. In 11 of the 15 Assembly constituencies it has fielded new faces. From Anakapalle Assembly constituency, it fielded party’s face of the district Ganta Srinivasa Rao.

PRP nominees for Visakhapatnam West P.V.G.R. Naidu (Ganababu), R. Yerra Patrudu (Narsipatnam) and G.V. Nageswara Rao (Elamanchili), are not new to electoral politics. But from Visakhapatnam North, South and East, Gajuwaka, Pendurthy, Bhimili, Chodavaram, Madugula, Payakaraopeta (SC), Paderu (ST) and Araku Valley (ST) the party has given tickets to the persons who have not fought Assembly elections before.

Since it is a new party, several aspirants have associated themselves with the party and took up service activities and promoted party programmes spending money. However, they are a disappointed lot when the PRP announced the nominees in the last minute.

Thus the party ended up with a good number of rebels filing nominations from various constituencies.

Among them are T. Manohar Kumar, K. Sandilya and Pedada Ramana Kumari (Visakhapatnam North); Pyla Jagannadha Rao and G.V. Narasimha Rao (Pendurthy); Korada Rajababu (Bhimunipatnam); U. Siva Nageswara Rao and Gorle Satyanarayana (Gajuwaka); Yerru Naidu (Chodavaram) and J. Rajagopal (Payakaraopeta).

The other parties are also not free from the rebel trouble. Sitting MLAs of the Congress - Karri Sitaramu (Bhimunipatnam); K. Ravibabu (Araku) and P. Mangapathi Rao (Madugula) filed nominations though their names are not cleared by the party.

Thota Vijayalakshmi, who has been first named from Pendurthy and later replaced by Gandi Babji, continues to be in the fray. Besides, she also filed her papers from Anakapalle where Commercial Taxes Minister Konathala Ramakrishna is the Assembly nominee.

The TDP appears to be relatively free from the problem. Only L.B.V. Rao and former MLA K. Chitti Naidu filed papers from Araku (ST) constituency.

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