Election Results 2024: Andhra Pradesh Congress chief Y.S. Sharmila trails in Kadapa Lok Sabha constituency
The Hindu
Elections 2024: APCC president Y.S. Sharmila Reddy struggles in Kadapa, highlighting Congress party's diminishing prospects in Andhra Pradesh.
The chances of Andhra Pradesh Congress Committee (APCC) president Y.S. Sharmila Reddy bagging the Kadapa Parliamentary constituency looks bleak, and so is the Congress party’s scope for winning at least one constituency from the State.
With 22,961 votes polled in her favour, she was trailing by 1,11,793 votes against her cousin and nearest rival, Y.S. Avinash Reddy of the YSRCP, who won 1,34,754 votes by 11 a.m. Meanwhile, TDP’s Chadipiralla Bhupesh Subbarami Reddy is in second place with 1,12,192 votes by the same time.
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Ms. Sharmila reached the counting centre in Kadapa after offering prayers at YSR Samadhi in Idupulapaya, along with her husband M. Anil Kumar.
The Congress party raked up the Y.S. Vivekananda Reddy murder case ahead of the polls and expected it to work in Ms. Sharmila’s favour, at least in her native Kadapa district, where Mr. Vivekananda Reddy was hugely popular as the face of the ‘YS’ family.
Her war cry, ‘Justice for Viveka’, was ably supported in the form of public appearances and press conferences by the slain MP’s daughter, Suneetha Narreddy and wife, Y.S. Sowbhagyamma. However, the voters had apparently remained unaffected.
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