The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is keen to repeat its victory of the 1999 elections in the prestigious Tirupati (SC) Lok Sabha constituency in 2024 even as speculations are rife that the party would join the Telugu Desam Party (TDP)-Jana Sena Party (JSP) combine for the forthcoming elections.
In a straight fight in the 1999 elections, BJP nominee and a former bureaucrat N. Venkataswamy defeated then Congress candidate Chinta Mohan, albeit with a thin margin of 12,497 votes.