The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is likely to contest from 11 Assembly constituencies instead of ten as decided earlier. The latest one on the BJP’s list of Assembly constituencies will be Rajamahendravaram (Rural).
As part of the seat-sharing agreement by National Democratic Alliance (NDA) partners in the State, it was decided that ten Assembly and six Lok Sabha seats would be allocated to the BJP, while the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) and Jana Sena Party (JSP) would contest from remaining seats.
According to party sources, BJP national executive member and former BJP State president Somu Veerraju will be in the fray from Rajamahendravaram (Rural). The Telugu Desam Party (TDP), which is one of the alliance partners of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) in the State, has agreed to spare the seat for BJP, and the sitting TDP MLA Gorantla Butchaiah Chowdary has to forego his constituency.
