Battle lines drawn in Andhra Pradesh ahead of 2019 Lok Sabha elections

As the Lok Sabha elections draw near, the battle in Andhra Pradesh is hotting up. The state Assembly polls and the Lok Sabha polls will be held simultaneously. On Wednesday, YSR Congress Chief Y S Jaganmohan Reddy is slated to complete his 3,500 km padayatra in Srikakulam. Meanwhile, rival N Chandrababu Naidu, Andhra Pradesh chief minister and chief of the Telugu Desam Party, landed in New Delhi on Tuesday evening to meet Opposition leaders, including Congress President Rahul Gandhi and Communist Party of India (Marxist) Chief Sitaram Yechury. After the drubbing the Congress-TDP alliance suffered in the Telangana Assembly polls,