Kadapa: Former Andhra Pradesh Chief
Minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy's wife Vijayalakshmi today
filed nomination for the bypoll to Pulivendula assembly
seat previously held by her late husband.
Vijayalakshmi filed the nomination as Congress
candidate at Pulivendula Tahsildar office. She was accompanied
by her son and Kadapa MP Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy, her
brother-in-law Y S Vivekananda Reddy and district in-charge
minister G Aruna Kumari.
Main opposition Telugu Desam and Chiranjeevi's Praja
Rajyam party have indicated that they will not field their
candidates in Pulivendula bypolls as mark of respect to late
Rajasekhara Reddy.
Other parties like Lok Satta and Left are also
expected to follow suit, sources said.
"My mother was not interested to contest. But I convinced
her as per Congress president Sonia Gandhi's directive," Jagan
Mohan Reddy said.
The decision to field Vijayalakshmi as Congress candidate
is being seen as an attempt to check-mate the supporters of
Rajasekhara Reddy who conducted a spirited campaign for
installing Jagan Mohan Reddy as Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister.
PTI
First Published: Tuesday, December 01, 2009, 21:47