Selection of candidate for Cheepurupalli constituency has turned into a big challenge for the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) as top leaders such Ganta Srinivasa Rao and Kala Venkata Rao are reluctant to contest from the constituency, which is currently represented by Minister for Education Botcha Satyanarayana.
Mr. Srinivasa Rao’s loyalists say that it is too late to propose their leader’s name for the seat as he did not have enough time to get a foothold over the segment where YSRCP won the election with a margin of 26,498 votes in 2019.