Andhra Pradesh chief minister and TDP president N Chandrababu Naidu retained most of the sitting MLAs and inducted 20 new faces in the first list of candidates for 126 assembly seats late on Thursday March14,2019 amid protests by rival groups within the party.
72 OC, 31 BC, 17 SC, 4 ST and 2 minorities candidates leaders were named as party candidates by the TDP chief.
The list featured his son Nara Lokesh, who will be fighting his first electoral battle from Mangalagiri constituency in the Amravati capital region.
Almost all the ministers got the tickets, barring a few who are either being fielded in the Lok Sabha elections or have preferred being replaced by their children.
Around 20 sitting MLAs, mostly in the reserved segments, were replaced by fresh faces. A few of the new entrants are relatives of state ministers and sitting lawmakers.
Andhra Pradesh with 175 assembly and 25 Lok Sabha seats will go to polls on April 11. The votes will be counted on May 23.
The Telegu Desam party with 102 seats, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) four, YSRC 67 and two Independents constituted the first assembly of the successor state of Andhra Pradesh in 2014. The TDP sent 15 members, BJP two and YSRC eight to Parliament from the state in the elections held along with the state polls that year.
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