AP bypolls: Lok Satta party names candidates for 2 more seats
Jonnalagadda Jaya Bhagyam, a Dalit agricultural laborer from Pedagottipadu village, will contest from Pattipadu in Guntur district and Karnam Vasanta Kumar, a lawyer, from Yemmiganur in Kurnool district, Lok Satta president N Jayaprakash Narayan told reporters.
The party has already named its candidates for Ongole, Rayadurgam, Anantapur and Tirupati seats.
Bypolls will be held for one Lok Sabha and 18 Assembly seats. The bye-elections to 16 of the 18 Assembly seats were necessitated as the sitting Congress MLAs switched loyalty to Kadapa MP, Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy, and voted against Congress government during a floor test in December, while the sitting member quit in support of Jagan in another place.