YSRC ropes in senior leaders for campaign

Tirupati: With voting to take place on April 17, the campaign for the Tirupati Lok Sabha seat has intensified.
While the ruling YSRC has roped in several senior ministers to campaign for its candidate Dr Gurumoorthy, the BJP-Jana Sena combine is not lagging behind. Union ministers Rajnath Singh, Nitin Gadkari and G Kishan Reddy are scheduled to lead the BJP campaign in coming days.
The actor-turned-politician Pawan Kalyan held a roadshow followed by a public meeting in the city on Saturday, appealing to the voters to extend support to the BJP-Jana Sena’s candidate K Ratna Prabha.
TDP, which has decided to boycott the MPTC-ZPTC elections in the state, is relying on several former ministers and MLAs to campaign for its candidate and former Union minister Panabaka Lakshmi.
TDP state president K Atchem Naidu has been camping in the temple city for more than a week. Former minister and party’s national general secretary Nara Lokesh is also part of the campaign. Meanwhile, former TUDA chairman G Narasimha Yadav told TOI that former chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu will hold roadshows and public meetings in all seven assembly segments from April 9 to 10.
Congress has fielded six-time MP Dr M Chinta Mohan and the CPI(M) candidate is N Yadagiri.