Accordingly Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu and his chief rival, YSRCP chief Jaganmohan Reddy, have both cast their votes in the early hours of Phase 1 of the polls. Meanwhile Naidu voted for the simultaneous polls at Amaravati, Jaganmohan voted at Pulivendula. When Naidu is seeking election from Kuppam, while his son Nara Lokesh is making his electoral debut from Mangalagiri.
Furthermore polling in Jammalamadugu in Andhra’s Kadapa district (and constituency) is a non-starter even an hour after voting has started elsewhere and the delay is mainly due to technical issues concerning EVMs. Further the constituency has been witnessing bloody feuds between rival groups of the TDP, its workers and leaders. One of the region's biggest politicians, P Ramasubba Reddy, has traditionally been with the TDP, while his other power the state's marketing minister C Adinarayana Reddy has recently defected to TDP from YSRCP.
Now Adinarayana is seeking election from Jammalamadugu, something Ramasubba loyalists are extremely unhappy about. Moreover TDP MP and the party's candidate from Vijaywada, Kesineni Srinivas, have cast his vote at St Joseph Girl's High School in Vijaywada.
