Jagan sitting pretty in Pulivendula
Pulivendula: YSR Congress party star campaigner Y S Jaganmohan Reddy is sitting pretty from this seemandhra constituency which has returned a family member since 1978.
Y S Rajasekhar Reddy's family has been representing this assembly segment since the late 1970s when YSR won the election for Congress by defeating D Narayana Reddy of Janatha Party.
In 1999, YSR's brother Y S Vivekananda Reddy won the seat. In 1991, his paternal uncle YS Purushotham Reddy, in 2009 and 2011 by-elections, Y S Vijayamma retained the seat.
In all, Dr YSR won the seat for six times, the last time he did was with 1,03,556 votes while his nearest rival NV Satish Kumar Reddy of TDP polled 34,875 votes.
The voters of this constituency have reposed their faith in the family time and again, may be because he is a local man and the Idupulapaya estate of YSR, which he nurtured with his own hands, is nearby.
However, it used to fall in Lankireddypally assembly segment but in reorganisation it was clubbed with Vempally now a part of Pulivendula segment.
"It was during the YSR rule that the barren land here saw development. JNTU Pulivendula campus was established, several cotton spinning mills and cement bag manufacturing units and an outer ring road have come up," says YS Bhaskar Reddy, who heads YSRC Pulivendula unit.
Bhaskar Reddy, who runs the YSRC party affairs here, says that the people here expect that YS Jaganmohan Reddy should take up the problem of drinking water on a war footing.
He alleged that subsequent governments after YSR's death neglected the Jalayagnam project under which the Gandikota project was taken up to mitigate the drinking water crisis.
For the first time Jagan is contesting an assembly seat hoping that he would become the Chief minister of the residual state of AP.
Here, the fight is between Jaganmohan Reddy and TDP candidate Satish Kumar Reddy while the Congress has fielded a block level leader Rajagopal Reddy and the Kiran Kumar Reddy's JSP fielded Mr Ramakrishna Reddy of Vempally but in the last minute.
News Posted: 4 May, 2014
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