Brothers to battle it out in Vijayawada
The Hindu
Vijayawada's political battleground between brothers Nani and Chinni, representing YSRCP and TDP, takes center stage in Andhra Pradesh.
The electoral battle between Kesineni Srinivas (alias Nani) and his brother Kesineni Shivnath (alias Chinni), fighting on YSRCP and TDP tickets, respectively, has been taking centre stage in Vijayawada, the hotbed of Andhra Pradesh politics.
The siblings who supported each other in their political endeavours are now pitted against each other. The TDP gave its ticket to the younger sibling, Chinni, following which the elder brother, Nani, a two-time MP, quit the TDP and joined the YSRCP.
Nani, who was elected on the TDP ticket in 2014 and 2019, resigned from the Parliament and the party this January and joined the YSRCP, which gave him the party ticket to contest from the Vijayawada Lok Sabha constituency.
On the other hand, Chinni has been groomed by the TDP for many months to ensure that the party retains its MP seat in the upcoming elections.
Nani’s transition from a successful transport operator to a prominent politician was smooth in Vijayawada. In 2014, the first elections held after the State bifurcation, he won with a comfortable majority of 74,862 votes. In 2019, in spite of the Jagan wave, Nani held his ground and won the seat with a reduced majority of 8,726 votes. This made him one of the only three members of Telugu Desam elected to the Lok Sabha that year.
Historically, Vijayawada Lok Sabha constituency has seen diverse political affiliations. Regardless of their party affiliations, the MPs elected from here are actively engaged in Central politics.
Dr. Kanuri Laksham Rao, popularly known as K.L. Rao, Padma Bhushan recipient, was a distinguished engineer and was the Union Irrigation Minister elected from this constituency. Similarly, Parvathaneni Upendra, who served as the Union Minister for Parliamentary Affairs, was also elected from this constituency and was known to wield influence in the corridors of power at the Centre.
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