In
andhra pradesh, certain constituencies place more faith in the candidates' unique qualities than in the party's overall reputation. Two such constituencies have been given to the
tdp by the ruling
party,
ysr Congress, on a
silver platter, according to
ap polling trends. The
addanki and Parchur constituencies are those two.
Gottipati
ravi Kumar, a current
mla with a good public image, was fielded by the
tdp in Addanki. Previously affiliated with Congress, he ran for
office in
addanki in 2004 and 2009 until joining the
ycp in 2014. After that, he located a secure harbor in
telugu Desam and ran for
office in
2019 on the
tdp platform. Regardless of the
party he belongs to, he was elected as
addanki mla three times in a row, demonstrating that his reputation in
addanki is greater than that of any party.
In case Gottipati Ravi's supremacy in
addanki wasn't forceful enough,
chinna Hanimi Reddy, an outsider, was fielded by the
ysr Congress. To compete against a
mass leader like
ravi in
addanki,
ycp brought him from Peddakurapadu in Guntur, and this essentially closed the deal for TDP. Numerous
ycp cadres and tier 2 leaders joined
telugu Desam following Hanimi Reddy's announcement as the candidate, indicating Ravi's
victory even in advance of the election.
Next is Parchur, where
eluru sambasiva rao is competing on behalf of the TDP. He had a successful debut here in 2014 on a
tdp ticket, and in
2019 he overcame a big
ycp wave to win here once more. Yedama Balaji, who has a terrible record for having worked for every major political
party in the
ap, was selected by the
ycp as their candidate in this
election in 2024. Furthermore, Eluri
sambasiva rao is playing at a high level right now, and there is some internal discussion about how this big-margin
victory is a formality.
Even before the
election,
tdp had a significant advantage due to YCP's poor candidate selection and the individual strengths of the
tdp candidates in the two constituencies.