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• The ruling party will also have the support of four TDP MLAs and one Jana Sena MLA, taking the total to 156. • Two rebel YSRCP MLAs could possibly back TDP nominee, taking the strength of ycp to 154 • The polling will take place from 9 am to 4 pm and counting will start from 5 pm The elections for seven MLCs under the MLA quota began on Thursday morning with ruling YSRCP and opposition TDP going head to head. Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Jagan Mohan Reddy was the first to cast his vote in the election in Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly, Tv9 Telugu reported. There are eight candidates running for seven vacant seats, seven from the ruling YSRCP and one from the opposition TDP. The total strength of the Assembly is at 175 while the ruling party has 151 MLAs and TDP has 23 MLAs and one MLA from Jana Sena. Meanwhile, the ruling party will also have the support of four TDP MLAs and one Jana Sena MLA, taking the total to 156. However, two YSRCP MLAs – Kotamreddy Sridhar Reddy and Anam Ramanarayana Reddy have taken a stand against the party and are likely to support the TDP nominee. The total strength of the ruling party is likely to be at 154. To elect each MLA, 22 votes are needed and it is likely to be an easy ride for the seven candidates fielded by the YCP if all the votes cast turn out to be valid. The YCP candidates include Jayamangala Venkataramana, Marri Rajasekhar, CH Yesuratanam, Bommi Israel, Kola Guruvulu, Pothula Sunitha and Venkata Suryanarayana Raju. The TDP...

The AP MLC election results established that at least four YSRCP MLAs resorted to cross-voting. It was expected that the In a shocker, two more ruling-party legislators cross-voted and delivered a bitter defeat to the YS Jagan Mohan Reddy-led YSRCP. TDP move in 2023 AP MLC election surprised many In a surprising move, the TDP had The deft move caught the ruling YSRCP unawares. Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy cautioned the ministers against being complacent after a Cabinet meeting in Amaravati on 14 March. The YSRCP expected a cakewalk in all seven seats when the TDP threw down its gauntlet. With the numbers in its favour, the ruling YSRCP could have comfortably won six seats, while the contest for the seventh seat was closely watched. The TDP fielding its MLC candidate at the last minute necessitated polling, which was held on Thursday. Also read: The 2023 AP MLC election results As the counting started at 5 pm, everyone followed the minute-to-minute developments in rapt attention. Anuradha’s win came in the first hour itself. The YSRCP-backed candidates — Marri Rajasekhar, VV Suryanarayana Raju Penumatsa, Pothula Sunitha, Jayamangala Venkataramana, B Israel, and Chandragiri Yesuratnam — won their seats comfortably, each securing the 22 votes required. While Jayamangal Venkataramana and Kola Gurvulu polled 21 votes each, one short of the required numbers, Ramana won with the help of second-preferential votes. Interestingly, it was only recently that Venkataramana — for...

Highlights • MLA Anantha Venkatarama Reddy says their party leaders are confident of victory based on the performance of government and the welfare programmes implemented by government to all sections of people • Former TDP MLA Prabhakar Choudhury says that Nara Lokesh’s Yuva Galam increasing popularity is an indication of the rising tide against the YSRCP government Anantapur-Puttaparthi: With the Chief Minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy hinting his MLAs that elections to state Assembly are around the corner and even asked his party functionaries to be on election mode by gearing up and oiling the party machinery to fight the crucial 2024 polls, almost all political parties have treated it as political alert to well oil its election machinery. Representatives of political parties feel that the Union Home Minister Amit Shah too sounded the poll buggle from Visakhapatnam on Sunday by launching a tirade against the ruling YSRCP’s nefarious reign of terror. The YSRCP won 12 out of 14 MLA seats in the undivided Anantapur district except Hindupur and Uravakonda where Nandamuri Bala Krishna and Payyavula Keshav won the respective seats in 2019 Assembly elections. Just as the Chief Minister, the party MLAs from the district are highly confident of their victory in the 2024 elections. Speaking to The Hans India MLA Anantha Venkatarama Reddy says that their leaders are confident of victory based on the performance of government and the welfare programmes implemented by government to al...

As the election season heats up in Andhra Pradesh, the ruling YSRCP on Friday suspended four of its MLAs for allegedly cross-voting in the election for seven MLC seats held a day earlier, accusing the TDP of using money to influence them. YSRCP general secretary Sajjala Ramakrishna Reddy announced the suspension of Undavalli Sridevi (Tadikonda Assembly seat), Kotam Reddy Sridhar Reddy (Nellore Rural), Mekapati Chandrashekhar Reddy (Udayagiri) and Anam Ramanarayan Reddy (Venkatagiri). In Thursday’s MLC election for seven vacant seats, the YSRCP won six, while the TDP which has only 19 MLAs won one seat. Against all odds, Panchumurthi Anuradha of the TDP won, allegedly with the help of votes from the four YSRCP MLAs. Also Read | “We have conducted an internal investigation on the cross-voting. We have taken action against the four MLAs only after that. They were suspended for violating the party’s whip in the MLC elections. According to our information, money has been exchanged. TDP chief N Sajjala added that the TDP might have also promised tickets to those cross-voted. Also Read | The four accused MLAs have already been going against the party for months. On February 1, two-time YSRCP MLA from “I don’t know what I’m being suspected of, but I have plenty of evidence that my phones are being tapped. Some people tell me that I’m in touch with leaders of other parties. I’m hurt that I’m being suspected. I can’t continue in a party that suspects me,” Kotamreddy said Friday. “I ...

Eight candidates are in fray for the seven seats to the Upper House of the state legislature. Opposition Telugu Desam Party (TDP) has fielded one candidate, necessitating the polling. While the ruling party is confident of a clean sweep, the TDP is hoping to win a seat. A candidate needs 22 votes to win the election. In the 175-member Assembly, YSRCP has 151 seats and it is confident of securing votes of four rebel MLAs of TDP and the lone MLA of TDP, which had 23 seats in the Assembly, is left with 19 members as four others have turned rebels. However, the opposition party is hopeful of bagging votes of two rebel MLAs of the ruling party. Even if both the rebels of YSRCP sail with TDP, the opposition party will still need one more vote. TDP, which dealt a blow to the YSRCP by winning three graduates’ constituencies in the recently held Council elections, expects that a couple of MLAs from YSRCP will defy the party whip to back its candidate. When the voting began on Thursday morning, TDP leader Nimmala Kistappa claimed that 16 MLAs of YSRCP are in touch with them. The ruling party, however, dismissed the claim as a mind game being played by the opposition. For seven seats from MLA quota, the ruling party has fielded V.V. Surya Narayana Raju, Pothula Sunitha, Kola Guruvulu, Bommi Israel, Jayamangala Venkataramna, Chandragiri Yesuratnam and Marri Rajasekhar. TDP has field P. Anuradha. Both YSRCP and The polling began at 9 a.m. and will continue till 4 p.m. The counting of v...

Andhra Pradesh MLAs are elected through the adult franchise every five years. The Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly consists of 175 members, one for each of the state constituencies. Andhra Pradesh MLAs carry out functions related to legislation, administration, budget, and public grievances. In 2014, Telangana was separated from AP and a total of 175 seats were allotted to AP Legislative Assembly while 119 were allotted to Telangana Legislative Assembly. In this article, we have shared the AP MLA list, with details about their parties and constituencies. Andhra Pradesh MLA There are 175 MLAs in Andhra Pradesh, elected democratically through the universal adult franchise. Earlier, the AP Legislative Assembly used to have a unicameral formation but now, it is a bicameral legislature. The last election for AP MLAs was held on 11 April 2019, in which the YSR Congress Party won a total of 151 seats. Currently, the 15th Legislative Assembly of AP is in place, and elections for the new MLAs will be held in 2024. Here is an overview of the current Andhra Pradesh MLAs. Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly MLAs in Andhra Pradesh 175 Speaker Thammineni Seetharam (YSRCP) Deputy Speaker Kolagatla Veerabhadra Swamy (YSRCP) AP MLA List Andhra Pradesh MLAs are elected every five years, unless a member resigns, or is disqualified. Currently, there are 175 members of the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly. We have shared the names of all the members in the AP MLA list shared here. # AP M...

AC. No. AC. Name Sitting MLAs Party AC. No. AC. Name Sitting MLAs Party 1 Ichchapuram Ashok Bendalam TDP 89 Vemuru (SC) Merugu Nagarjuna YSRCP 2 Palasa Appalaraju Seediri YSRCP 90 Repalle Anagani Satya Prasad TDP 3 Tekkali Atchannaidu Kinjarapu TDP 91 Tenali Annabathuni Siva Kumar YSRCP 4 Pathapatnam Reddy Shanthi YSRCP 92 Bapatla Kona Raghupathi YSRCP 5 Srikakulam Dharmana Prasada Rao YSRCP 93 Prathipadu (SC) Mekathoti Sucharitha YSRCP 6 Amadalavalasa Thammineni Seetharam YSRCP 94 Guntur West Maddali Giridhara Rao TDP 7 Etcherla Gorle. Kiran Kumar YSRCP 95 Guntur East Mohammed Mustafa Shaik YSRCP 8 Narasannapeta Dharmana Krishna Das YSRCP 96 Chilakaluripet Rajini Vidadala YSRCP 9 Rajam (SC) Kambala Jogulu YSRCP 97 Narasaraopet Gopireddy Srinivasareddy YSRCP 10 Palakonda (ST) Viswasarayi Kalavathi YSRCP 98 Sattenapalli Ambati Rambabu YSRCP 11 Kurupam Pushpasreevani . Pamula YSRCP 99 Vinukonda Bolla Brahma Naidu YSRCP 12 Parvathipuram Alajangi Jogarao YSRCP 100 Gurazala Kasu Mahesh Reddy YSRCP 13 Salur Peedika. Rajanna Dora YSRCP 101 Macherla Ramakrishnareddy Pinnelli. YSRCP 14 Bobbili Sambangi Venkatachina Appala Naidu YSRCP 102 Yerragondapalem Audimulapu Suresh YSRCP 15 Cheepurupalli Botcha Satyanarayana YSRCP 103 Darsi Maddisetty Venugopal YSRCP 16 Gajapathinagaram Appalanarasayya Botcha YSRCP 104 Parchur Yeluri Samba Sivarao TDP 17 Nellimarla Appala Naidu Baddukonda YSRCP 105 Addanki Gottipati Ravikumar TDP 18 Vizianagaram Veera Bhadra Swamy Kolagatla YSRCP 106 Chirala ...

The AP MLC election results established that at least four YSRCP MLAs resorted to cross-voting. It was expected that the In a shocker, two more ruling-party legislators cross-voted and delivered a bitter defeat to the YS Jagan Mohan Reddy-led YSRCP. TDP move in 2023 AP MLC election surprised many In a surprising move, the TDP had The deft move caught the ruling YSRCP unawares. Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy cautioned the ministers against being complacent after a Cabinet meeting in Amaravati on 14 March. The YSRCP expected a cakewalk in all seven seats when the TDP threw down its gauntlet. With the numbers in its favour, the ruling YSRCP could have comfortably won six seats, while the contest for the seventh seat was closely watched. The TDP fielding its MLC candidate at the last minute necessitated polling, which was held on Thursday. Also read: The 2023 AP MLC election results As the counting started at 5 pm, everyone followed the minute-to-minute developments in rapt attention. Anuradha’s win came in the first hour itself. The YSRCP-backed candidates — Marri Rajasekhar, VV Suryanarayana Raju Penumatsa, Pothula Sunitha, Jayamangala Venkataramana, B Israel, and Chandragiri Yesuratnam — won their seats comfortably, each securing the 22 votes required. While Jayamangal Venkataramana and Kola Gurvulu polled 21 votes each, one short of the required numbers, Ramana won with the help of second-preferential votes. Interestingly, it was only recently that Venkataramana — for...

As the election season heats up in Andhra Pradesh, the ruling YSRCP on Friday suspended four of its MLAs for allegedly cross-voting in the election for seven MLC seats held a day earlier, accusing the TDP of using money to influence them. YSRCP general secretary Sajjala Ramakrishna Reddy announced the suspension of Undavalli Sridevi (Tadikonda Assembly seat), Kotam Reddy Sridhar Reddy (Nellore Rural), Mekapati Chandrashekhar Reddy (Udayagiri) and Anam Ramanarayan Reddy (Venkatagiri). In Thursday’s MLC election for seven vacant seats, the YSRCP won six, while the TDP which has only 19 MLAs won one seat. Against all odds, Panchumurthi Anuradha of the TDP won, allegedly with the help of votes from the four YSRCP MLAs. Also Read | “We have conducted an internal investigation on the cross-voting. We have taken action against the four MLAs only after that. They were suspended for violating the party’s whip in the MLC elections. According to our information, money has been exchanged. TDP chief N Sajjala added that the TDP might have also promised tickets to those cross-voted. Also Read | The four accused MLAs have already been going against the party for months. On February 1, two-time YSRCP MLA from “I don’t know what I’m being suspected of, but I have plenty of evidence that my phones are being tapped. Some people tell me that I’m in touch with leaders of other parties. I’m hurt that I’m being suspected. I can’t continue in a party that suspects me,” Kotamreddy said Friday. “I ...

Highlights • MLA Anantha Venkatarama Reddy says their party leaders are confident of victory based on the performance of government and the welfare programmes implemented by government to all sections of people • Former TDP MLA Prabhakar Choudhury says that Nara Lokesh’s Yuva Galam increasing popularity is an indication of the rising tide against the YSRCP government Anantapur-Puttaparthi: With the Chief Minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy hinting his MLAs that elections to state Assembly are around the corner and even asked his party functionaries to be on election mode by gearing up and oiling the party machinery to fight the crucial 2024 polls, almost all political parties have treated it as political alert to well oil its election machinery. Representatives of political parties feel that the Union Home Minister Amit Shah too sounded the poll buggle from Visakhapatnam on Sunday by launching a tirade against the ruling YSRCP’s nefarious reign of terror. The YSRCP won 12 out of 14 MLA seats in the undivided Anantapur district except Hindupur and Uravakonda where Nandamuri Bala Krishna and Payyavula Keshav won the respective seats in 2019 Assembly elections. Just as the Chief Minister, the party MLAs from the district are highly confident of their victory in the 2024 elections. Speaking to The Hans India MLA Anantha Venkatarama Reddy says that their leaders are confident of victory based on the performance of government and the welfare programmes implemented by government to al...