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KADAPA: Home Guard selections will be held in Kadapa on June 7 and candidates aged between 18 and 50 years of age can apply between May 26 and June 3, Kadapa Superintendent of Police Tarun Joshi said on Monday. Candidates who have passed class VII can collect the application forms from the Kadapa District Police Office and submit filled in …

Kadapa: The Chief Minister, Mr N. Kiran Kumar Reddy, reportedly called for tenders five days ago to divert water from Jharikona Project to his native Palamaner constituency in Chittoor district. The move caused concern to people in Kadapa. Jharikona project was planned near Sambepalle in YSR district and KV Palle in Chittoor district to provide drinking and irrigation water to …

Kadapa: A day after his landslide victory in by-elections, YSR Congress Party chief Y S Jaganmohan Reddy challenged the Congress to call for a snap poll and contest with photos of Sonia and Rahul Gandhi on Saturday. “This is my challenge to the Congress party. If you are so confident, call for an election. Go ahead with the photos of …

YSR Congress president Y S Jaganmohan Reddy has proved that he was the real heir to the political legacy of his father late chief minister YSR Reddy. He won the Kadapa Lok Sabha bypoll fray with an unprecedented majority of 5.45 lakh votes, breaking the record of the former prime minister P V Narasimha Rao’s victory in 1991 from Nandyal …

KADAPA: YSR Congress party chief Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy was leading by about 4,00,00 votes after the completion of around 12 rounds of counting in the bypolls to high-profile Kadapa Lok Sabha constituency in Andhra Pradesh. Jagan was leading over his nearest Congress rival D L Ravindra Reddy, official sources said. In Pulivendula assembly constituency, Jagan’s mother Vijayalakshmi was …

The ruling Congress leaders including the Pulivendula assembly contestant, Vivekananda Reddy conceded his defeat in the bypolls.   The Chief Minister held a post-mortem on the bypolls at his camp office on Tuesday with party nominees, Dr D.L. Ravindra Reddy and Y.S. Vivekananda Reddy, besides district MLA Veera Siva Reddy and whip S. Sailajanath.   According to sources, all the …

Kadapa: The Kadapa Lok Sabha seat registered 77.48 percent polling in the bye-elections, Returning Officer Sasibhushan Kumar said here on Monday. Sasibhushan Kumar, who is also the District Collector, told reporters that as compared to the 2009 elections, the polling percentage in Kadapa has seen a rise of around two per cent. In 2009, 75.73 per cent polling had been registered. …

The bypolls were necessary following the resignations of the Kadapa MP, Mr Jagan Mohan Reddy and his mother, Ms Vijayalakshmi, who quit from Pulivendula, after parting ways with the Congress and launching their own political outfit, the YSR Congress Party. In Pulivendula, there was a fierce electoral battle for the legacy YSR for which his brother and former agriculture minister, …

Who will come second? That’s a recurring question in Kadapa, the family pocket-borough of late Andhra Pradesh chief minister YS Rajasekhara Reddy, that goes to polls today. On who will come first, there is no debate. In the dusty towns and neo-rich villages of Kadapa, it is a foregone conclusion that YSR’s son Jagan Mohan Reddy will win with a …

KADAPA: It’s not a question of who will win. The current buzz doing the rounds in Kadapa parliamentary constituency is with how much majority Y S Jaganmohan Reddy will sweep the bypolls. In all, over 13.28 lakh voters will exercise their franchise in the much-touted election on May 8. In what is fast turning out to be one of the …