Atmakur bypoll to be a cakewalk for YSRCP
Jagan mohan reddy was certain that a member of the Mekapati family should represent Goutham Reddy's seat for two terms in a row. The name of keerthi reddy, Goutham Reddy's wife, arose as a possible YSRCP candidate, but she expressed no interest in running. vikram Reddy was chosen by the Mekapati family to be Goutham Reddy's political heir. vikram Reddy, the second son of former mp Rajmohan reddy, is the CEO of KMC Construction. He earned his bachelor's degree from IIT madras and his master's degree in construction management in the United States.
Vikram's election is a foregone conclusion, according to political pundits, because of the strong popular support that Mekapati's family enjoys in the nellore district electorate, as well as the sympathy factor. The choice of the main opposition tdp not to run a candidate, as it has done in the past, appears to have made things easier for the YSRCP. Despite Chandrababu Naidu's TDP's vehement criticisms on what it terms YSRCP's "misgovernance" and the renewed energy shown in tdp ranks during its recent "12Mahanadu," the tdp leadership opted not to run a candidate in Atmakur.