YSR Congress Party’s Rachamallu Sivaprasad Reddy, a two-time MLA from Proddatur, eyes a hat-trick this time by banking on three parameters.
Locally called the mini-Mumbai, Proddatur is also known to be the financial capital of the Kadapa district, given the presence of a large number of gold outlets, albeit in the unorganised sector.
Mr. Reddy won the seat in 2014 against TDP’s Nandyala Varadarajulu Reddy by 12,945 votes and in 2019 against TDP’s Mallela Linga Reddy by a huge margin of 45,148 votes, riding the ‘Jagan wave’.