Hyderabad, May 28: The Congress party has cold-shouldered late Chief Minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy’s younger brother Y S Vivekananda Reddy by denying him a seat in the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Council under the Governor’s quota.
Though it was widely expected that Vivekananda would be ‘nominated’ to the Council following his drubbing in the by-election to Pulivendula Assembly constituency, his name did not figure in the list of candidates announced by the Congress to fill the five vacancies in the Upper House of the state Legislature.
A Chakrapani, former chairman of the Legislative Council, has secured re-nomination while four others ? D Rajeswara Rao, A Lakshmi Siva Kumari, Reddappa Reddy and Farook Hussain ? also got the nod.
—-PTi