Hyderabad, April 08: Congress party has at last finalized its candidate for the Kadapa Parliamentary constituency of the YSR district. As no one came forward to fight the YSR Congress chief Jagan, the onus o fell on minister D L Ravindra Reddy. The decision was taken in the presence of the Chief Minister Mr. N. Kirankumar Reddy late on Thursday night. DL’s name was sent to the Congress high command for approval.
Though the Congress leaders succeeded in making influential Kandula brothers defect into Congress from the TDP, they failed in making them stand in the election fray. Despite best efforts by all the Congress leaders, the brothers declined to contest. It is said they opted out of the election as they feared corrosion of their stature in the district, in case of defeat.
—-Agencies