BJP undecided between Jagan & Naidu, TDP-JSP announce candidates on 118 seats for Andhra Pradesh polls

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Hyderabad: Ahead of the Andhra Pradesh assembly elections scheduled in April, the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) and the Jana Sena Party (JSP) alliance has unveiled its first list of 118 candidates..

TDP chief Chandrababu Naidu and JSP leader Pawan Kalyan jointly announced the names of their candidates, including 94 from the TDP, at a press conference held at Naidus residence in Undavalli near Amaravati Saturday...

Though not an official ally, Chief Minister and Yuvajana Sramika Rythu Congress Party (YSRCP) chief Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy has been maintaining a friendly equation with the BJP, supporting the Prime Minister Narendra Modi government on various matters, including the passage of some crucial bills in Parliament...

Earlier this week, Kalyan, officially a National Democratic Alliance (NDA) ally who has self-admittedly made intense efforts for the TDP-BJP re-alliance, while addressing his party workers at Bhimavaram in a lighter vein remarked that he was even scolded by the BJP elders for his insistence on regrouping to defeat Jagan...

The TDP-JSP alliance was forged at the Rajahmundry Central Jail in mid-September last year in a charged-up political atmosphere in Andhra Pradesh following former CM Chandrababu Naidus arrest by AP CID in the alleged skill development project scam...

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