The TDP and Jana Sena Party alliance announced the candidates for five out of seven Assembly constituencies in Guntur district, five out of six in Bapatla district and four out of seven in Palnadu district on Saturday.
The TDP is fielding former MLA Tenali Sravan Kumar at Tadikonda (SC) Assembly Constituency, from where he was elected in 2014 and got defeated in 2019. The party general secretary Nara Lokesh is again contesting from Mangalagiri Assembly Constituency. He lost the elections in 2019 at the same constituency against the then sitting MLA Alla Ramakrishna Reddy. Even after the defeat, Mr. Lokesh has been doing social service to the people of the constituency for the last five years and he is confident of winning the elections now.
The senior leader Dhulipalla Narendra is again contesting from his native Ponnur Assembly Constituency. He is a five time elected MLA from the same constituency between 1994 and 2014 and lost for the first time in 2019 against YSRCP candidate Kilari Venkata Rosaiah. The TDP chief has selected Burla Ramanjaneyulu, a retired IAS officer and who worked as Collector of the erstwhile Guntur district, to contest from Prathipadu (SC) Assembly constituency.
