All three YSRCP candidates elected unopposed to Rajya Sabha
Amaravati, Feb 20 (IANS) – In a significant development, all three candidates of Andhra Pradesh’s ruling party YSRCP have been declared elected unopposed to the Rajya Sabha. Golla Babu Rao, Meda Raghunadha Reddy, and Y. V. Subba Reddy were declared elected by the Chief Electoral Officer.
The Returning Officer and Joint Secretary to State Legislature reported that biennial elections to the Rajya Sabha is uncontested and the three candidates have been declared elected.
The elections were scheduled on February 27 as the term of K. Ravindra Kumar (TDP), C.M. Ramesh (BJP), and V. Prabhakar Reddy (YSRCP) is coming to an end. However, no other nominations were filed for the three seats.
With 151 members in the 175-member Assembly, the YSRCP had the strength to win all three seats. After the deadline for withdrawal of nominations ended, the CEO announced that all three candidates were elected without contest.
Y. V. Subba Reddy, the maternal uncle of Chief Minister and YSRCP President Y S. Jagan Mohan Reddy, was elected to Lok Sabha from Ongole in 2014 and currently serves as Chairman of the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanam (TTD).
Golla Babu Rao, elected to the Assembly in 2019 from Payakaraopeta, a reserved constituency for Scheduled Castes, had previously served as an MLA from the same constituency in 2009 on a Congress ticket.
Raghunada Reddy, a real estate businessman from Annamayya district, rounds out the trio of newly elected representatives.
This uncontested victory reaffirms the YSRCP’s dominance in Andhra Pradesh politics and solidifies their representation in the Rajya Sabha.
–IANS
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