Hyderabad: The Praja Rajyam Party has released the names of its candidates for 13 Lok Sabha and 60 Assembly constituencies for the April elections in Andhra Pradesh.
PRP general secretary Allu Aravind released the party's second list on Sunday amidst protests by activists from various constituencies over denial of tickets to their respective leaders.
Former Indian Administrative Service officer Thota Chandrasekhar has been nominated as the party candidate for the Guntur Lok Sabha seat, while former MP Bhuma Nagi Reddy, who switched sides from the Telugu Desam Party, has been given the Nandyal Lok Sabha ticket.
Another former TDP leader S A Khaleel Basha is being fielded from Kadapa Lok Sabha constituency against Chief Minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy's son Y S Jaganmohan Reddy. Former Union minister P Shiv Shanker's son P Vinay Kumar is being fielded from Nizamabad Lok Sabha constituency. Of the 13 candidates for the Lok Sabha, three each are from backward classes, upper castes, minorities and Scheduled Castes while one woman too was given a ticket.
Former minister J Chittaranjan Das, known as the "giant killer" for having defeated the legendary N T Rama Rao in Kalwakurthy in Mahbubnagar district in 1989, has been given the PRP ticket from the same Assembly constituency. He defected to the PRP from the Congress.
There are no other big names in the PRPs second list for the Assembly.
Sticking to its "social justice" plank, the party gave 21 seats to BCs, 12 to SCs, 11 to STs, 14 to upper castes, two to minorities and seven to women.
The PRP has so far announced candidates for 23 of the 42 Lok Sabha seats and 160 of the 294 Assembly seats in the state.
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