To counter the ‘Why not Kuppam?’ slogan of Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy and Minister Peddireddi Ramachandra Reddy, which targets the MLA seat in TDP chief N. Chandrababu Naidu’s constituency, the TDP, has come up with the slogan ‘Why not Punganur?’ calling for its party workers to work towards bagging the MLA set in Minister Peddireddi’s constituency.
The TDP has also identified a formidable candidate, Challa Ramachandra Reddy, also known as Challa Babu, to collide head-on with the Peddireddi family, which wields considerable clout in the district.
Peddireddi Ramachandra Reddy won from Piler as a Congress candidate in 1989, 1999 and 2004 and moved over to the adjacent Punganur, from where he continued his winning streak in 2009, 2014 and 2019—the last two times on a YSRCP ticket.
