Telugu Desam Party (TDP) national general secretary N. Lokesh said on August 18 (Friday) that he would contest the 2024 elections from the Mangalagiri Assembly constituency, where he had lost to the YSR Congress Party’s (YSRCP) Alla Ramakrishna Reddy by barely 6,000 votes in 2019, and exuded confidence that he would come out with flying colours.
Addressing the media at Mangalagiri in Guntur district after recording his statement in a local court in a defamation case he filed against A.P. State Film Development Corporation chairman Posani Krishna Murali, the TDP leader said his grandfather N.T. Rama Rao and father N. Chandrababu Naidu were Chief Ministers for more than two decades, but they had never committed irregularities.
On the contrary, Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy had served a prison term of 16 months allegedly for “looting people’s money to the tune of ₹1,00,000 crore when his father Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy was the Chief Minister,” Mr. Lokesh alleged.
