There has been news since this morning that Chandra Babu Naidu will be convincing Nandyala Janasena MP candidate SPY Reddy to withdraw his nomination papers. However, SPY Reddy’s son-in-law Sridhar gave a statement this evening that these are all false rumours and SPY Reddy as well as his family members will be contesting on Janasena ticket and there is no question of withdrawing the nominations. He also appealed people to not get confused by this kind of false news spread by media.
Chandra Babu is currently in Nandyal and TDP held a public meeting here. During this meeting, CBN made sharp comments on Jagan and reminded people about criminal cases on him. TV channels started scrolling the news since this morning that CBN, who is going to Nandyal today, may convince SPY Reddy to withdraw nominations. SPY Reddy is contesting as Nandyal MP on Janasena ticket, his son-in-law Sajjala Sridhar is contesting as MLA from Nandyal constituency. SPY reddy’s daughters Sujala and Aravinda Rani also contesting as Janasena MLA candidates from Srisailam and Banaganapalle constituencies. It would be naive on part of pro-TDP media to expect SPY Reddy family that got 4 tickets from the Janasena party to withdraw the nominations for any reason. Or else, maybe this section of media is over-expecting from CBN.
Janasena doesn’t have much political strength here, though Nandyal constituency has a significant chunk of Kapu votes. It seems Pawan is betting heavily on SPY Reddy family in Nandyala area. We will have to wait and see how far will be Pawan successful in winning any of these seats.
