Accordingly days after announcing two MP candidates ahead of the Lok Sabha and Legislative Assembly polls to be held in Andhra Pradesh on April 11, actor turned politician and Jana Sena Chief Pawan Kalyan released the first list consisting of 32 MLA candidates along with two other MP candidates. Meanwhile out of 32 MLA candidates, four notable candidates found a place in the list.
Reportedly Former Congress leader and united Andhra’s ex-Speaker Nadendla Manohar, who joined the party less than a year ago, has been given the Tenali ticket, while Thota Chandrashekar, a former IAS officer who reportedly owns the 99TV TV channel, has been given the Guntur West ticket. Furthermore Ravela Kishore Babu, a minister who quit the TDP citing caste bias and discrimination, has been given the Prathipadu Assembly ticket and Dr A Bharat Bhushan, a former Indian Railways officer, has been given the Vemuru Assembly ticket.
Previously Jana Sena declared two Lok Sabha contestants DMR Sekhar from Amalapuram and Dr Akula Satyanarayana from Rajahmundry. Meanwhile DMR Sekhar is a former ONGC employee who resigned to join the Jana Sena, Akula is a former BJP MLA who won in 2014. Apparently the Jana Sena plans to contest all of them in an alliance with Left parties, CPI and CPM and the party has already been allotted its poll symbol, a glass tumbler, by the Election Commission.
