The ruling YCP has decided to give 3 MLC tickets to Minister Mopidevi Venkataramana, Challa Ramakrishna Reddy and Mohammad Iqbal. All these leaders are going to file their nominations. Their election is going to be unanimous as the TDP has no enough numbers while YCP got 151 MLAs in the 175-member Assembly.
Mopidevi is considered a long-time loyalist of YSR family. He served in the YSR Cabinet as well. Mopidevi had also faced CBI investigation in the Jagan illegal assets cases and he was also jailed for sometime along with Jaganmohan Reddy.
Challa Ramakrishna Reddy is a senior leader of Reddy community in Kurnool district. Jagan has promised MLC to him prior to the elections itself. Sheik Mohammad Iqbal is a retired police officer and he was defeated by Nandamuri Balakrishna in Hindupur assembly segment.
There are many leaders who were promised MLC tickets by Jagan before elections. Marri Rajasekhar from Chilakaluripeta segment expected the ticket strongly as he stepped aside from election at the request of Jagan. His caste background came as a hurdle.
