Dharmavaram the sure seat of Congress

The legacy of Kethireddy family

PART OF HINDUPUR PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUENCY

279 DHARMAVARAM ASSEMBLY SEGMENT

List of Contesting Candidates
State Code	S01	State/UT	Andhra Pradesh
AC No.	279	AC Name	Dharmavaram

Sl. No:1	KACHARLA KANCHENNA
Age:: 48	Category:GEN	Sex:Male
Address:	D.NO 7/113, -
	DHARMAVARAM		: -
Party: Bharatiya Janata Party		Symbol Allotted : : Lotus

Sl. No:2	KETHIREDDI VENKATA RAMI REDDY
Age:: 28	Category:GEN	Sex:Male
Address:	D.NO 15/84, SBI COLONY
	DHARMAVARAM		: -
Party: Indian National Congress		Symbol Allotted : : Hand

Sl. No:3	DEVERAGUDI JAGADEESH
Age:: 49	Category:GEN	Sex:Male
Address:	D.NO 18/853, TILAK NAGAR
	GUNTAKAL		: -
Party: Communist Party of India		Symbol Allotted : : Ears of Corn And Sickle

Sl. No:4	MIDDE RAVINDRA BABU
Age:: 35	Category:SC	Sex:Male
Address:	D.NO 12/4/410, OBULADEV NAGAR
	ANANTAPUR		: -
Party: Bahujan Samaj Party		Symbol Allotted : : Elephant

Sl. No:5	DEVARAKONDA RAMAMNULU
Age:: 29	Category:GEN	Sex:Male
Address:	D.NO 32/601, TARAKARAMAPURAM
	DHARMAVARAM		: -
Party: Pyramid Party of India		Symbol Allotted : : Television

Sl. No:6	PAMISETTI NAGARAJU
Age:: 39	Category:GEN	Sex:Male
Address:	D.NO 7/631, GANDHI NAGAR
	DHARMAVARAM		: -
Party: Lok Satta Party		Symbol Allotted : : Whistle

Sl. No:7	MALAPATI SURYANARAYANA
Age:: 50	Category:GEN	Sex:Male
Address:	D.NO 2/58, MALYAVANTHAM
	BATHALAPALLI		: -
Party: Praja Party		Symbol Allotted : : Ring

Sl. No:8	G SADHASIVA REDDY
Age:: 36	Category:GEN	Sex:Male
Address:	D.NO 25/641-3, BANGLORE ROAD
	DHARMAVARAM		: -
Party: Praja Rajyam Party		Symbol Allotted : : Railway Engine

Sl. No:9	IMRAN
Age:: 30	Category:GEN	Sex:Male
Address:	D.NO 18/51, MARKET STREET
	DHARMAVARAM		: -
Party: Independent		Symbol Allotted : : Black Board

Sl. No:10	GONUGUNTLA MOHAN NAIDU
Age:: 35	Category:GEN	Sex:Male
Address:	-, -
	VARADAPURAM,BATHALAPALLI(M).		: -
Party: Independent		Symbol Allotted : : Diesel Pump

Sl. No:11	GONUGUNTLA VENKATA NAIDU
Age:: 31	Category:GEN	Sex:Male
Address:	-, -
	VARADAPURAM,BATHALAPALLI(M).		: -
Party: Independent		Symbol Allotted : : Violin

Sl. No:12	GANDHAMANENI NARAYANA SWAMY
Age:: 37	Category:GEN	Sex:Male
Address:	D.NO 22/193, YADAVA STREET
	DHARMAVARAM		: -
Party: Independent		Symbol Allotted : : Scissors

Sl. No:13	CHINTA PULLAIAH
Age:: 39	Category:GEN	Sex:Male
Address:	D.NO 32/469, -
	DHARMAVARAM		: -
Party: Independent		Symbol Allotted : : Almirah

Sl. No:14	P DEVENDRA REDDY
Age:: 28	Category:GEN	Sex:Male
Address:	D.NO 4/23, -
	CHILLAKANDAIAHPALLI,TADIMARRI(M).		: -
Party: Independent		Symbol Allotted : : Hat

Sl. No:15	NAGU RAVINDRAREDDY
Age:: 43	Category:GEN	Sex:Male
Address:	D.NO 1-383, V/S COLONY
	MADHAPUR,HYDERABAD.		: -
Party: Independent		Symbol Allotted : : Fork

Sl. No:16	NEELURU DHANUNJAYA
Age:: 40	Category:GEN	Sex:Male
Address:	D.NO 31/1030, TEACHERS COLONY
	DHARMAVARAM.		: -
Party: Independent		Symbol Allotted : : Lady Purse

Sl. No:17	MADANA RAMANJINEYULU
Age:: 40	Category:GEN	Sex:Male
Address:	D.NO 8/155, GANDHI NAGAR
	DHARMAVARAM		: -
Party: Independent		Symbol Allotted : : Road Roller

Sl. No:18	VAVILALA POTHULA SUNITHA
Age:: 42	Category:GEN	Sex:Female
Address:	D.NO 8149, SHANTI NAGAR
	VADDIPALLI(M),MAHABOB NAGAR(DT)		: -
Party: Independent		Symbol Allotted : : Coconut

Sl. No:19	G SRIRAMA REDDY
Age:: 44	Category:GEN	Sex:Male
Address:	D.NO 23/296, SAINAGAR
	DHARMAVARAM		: -
Party: Independent		Symbol Allotted : : Pressure Cooker

Sl. No:20	SHAIK SHABBER BASHA
Age:: 29	Category:GEN	Sex:Male
Address:	D.NO 22/226, YADAVA STREET
	DHARMAVARAM		: -
Party: Independent		Symbol Allotted : : Glass Tumbler

Sl. No:21	Y V SUDHAKARA REDDY
Age:: 48	Category:GEN	Sex:Male
Address:	-, -
	GANGALAPURAM,YARRAGUNTLA,KADAPA(DT).		: -
Party: Independent		Symbol Allotted : : Walking Stick

Sl. No:22	B SURESH NAIDU
Age:: 30	Category:GEN	Sex:Male
Address:	D.NO 8/212/6 A7, SATYASAI NAGAR
	DHARMAVARAM		: -
Party: Independent		Symbol Allotted : : Gas Stove

Sl. No:23	G SURYANARAYANA
Age:: 31	Category:GEN	Sex:Male
Address:	-, -
	VARADAPURAM,BATHALAPALLI(M)		: -
Party: Independent		Symbol Allotted : : Ceiling Fan

Sl. No:24	J SURYANARAYANA
Age:: 33	Category:GEN	Sex:Male
Address:	-, -
	MEDAPURAM,C.K PALLI(M).		: -
Party: Independent		Symbol Allotted : : Brief Case

Sl. No:25	G SURYANARAYANA REDDY
Age:: 31	Category:GEN	Sex:Male
Address:	-, -
	RAVULACHERUVU,DHARMAVARAM.		: -
Party: Independent		Symbol Allotted : : Table

Comments: A KEY CONSTITUENCY FOR HINDUPUR PARLIAMENT SEAT. The Congress will garner maximum votes from this segment. The Congress candidate is young UK educated engineering graduate and son of prominent leader Late Mr. Kethireddy Suryapratap Reddy. (Popularly known as sureedu). This assembly seat is in the bag of Congress.

2004 RESULTS	2009 FORECAST	ACTUAL RESULTS
T D P	Congress

Former MLA Suryapratap Reddy attacked at Tadipatri railway station

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Assailants spray chilli powder into Reddy's eyes and hacks him with axes

Naidu condemns killing and asks YSR to check political murders

Chief Minister seeks TDP help to end faction violence

Tension in Tadipatri and Dharmavaram areas

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TADIPATRI: Telugu Desam Party (TDP) leader and former MLA K. Suryapratap Reddy (55) was hacked to death by unidentified assailants in the railway station premises early on Tuesday.

He was attacked soon after he disembarked from Venkatadri Express coming from Hyderabad and died instantaneously. The police, quoting the gunman travelling with him, said the assailants sprayed chilli powder into the TDP leader's eyes and hacked him with axes as he was about to board an autorickshaw around 3.30 a.m.

They escaped even before the gunman could react and also threw a few bombs as they fled the scene.

He had close association with Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy and his father the late Y.S. Raja Reddy for about four decades. Suryapratap Reddy became inactive after last Assembly elections, suffering from diabetes and kidney failure. A kidney donated by his sister was transplanted last year.

A shocked TDP president N. Chandrababu Naidu rushed here from Hyderabad to console his family members. Before proceeding to Tadipatri, he wanted the Chief Minister either to control the trail of killings or quit the post.

Charging Panchayat Raj Minister J. C. Diwakar Reddy with being behind the "political murder", he demanded his dismissal.

Expressing anguish over the murder, the Chief Minister rejected the TDP's criticism that it was the result of political vendetta.

He asked a TDP delegation that called on him to stop giving the killing a political colour and join hands with the Congress in ending faction violence in Rayalaseema. Suryapratap Reddy and younger brother K. Pedda Reddy, who was in Tadipatri sub-jail at the time of the murder, have a long-standing rivalry with Mr J.C. Diwakar Reddy and his brother Prabhakar Reddy.

The ex-MLA unsuccessfully fought Mr. Diwakar Reddy from here in the last Assembly elections on the TDP ticket. Over half-a-dozen of his followers have been killed since May, 2004. Tension mounted in Tadipatri and Dharmavaram Assembly constituencies as news about the killing spread.

Police reinforcements were rushed to maintain law and order situation. APSRTC buses were taken off the road completely in Tadipatri segment and Yellanur and Putlur mandals in Dharmavaram segment.

Bandh today

Superintendent of Police Sanjay Kumar Jain rushed here and was monitoring the situation. He said five special police teams were formed to nab the killers. The police suspect the involvement of Bhogati Narayana Reddy, Chairman, Tadipatri Market Committee, and Kalluru Pratapa Reddy, both close followers of Mr. Diwakar Reddy.

Emotions ran high when Pedda Reddy went to the Government hospital here to see his brother's body after getting a bail. Followers of the TDP leader enforced a bandh in the town and threw stones on the police. The party has called for a district bandh on Wednesday. The funeral is likely to be held on Thursday at Thimmampalli after the arrival of his second son from the USA.

At Hyderabad the party's Polit Bureau scheduled to discuss Yellampalli project issue was converted into a condolence meeting.

ANANTAPUR: Kethireddy Suryapratap Reddy, better known as Sureedu among his followers and the general public in the area, had always maintained close association with Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy whichever party he was in.

A distant relationship with YSR and the geographical proximity of Thimmampalli village, the native place of Sureedu, with the Pulivendula constituency in Kadapa district have always kept the two families together. Sureedu was elected mandal parishad president of Yellanur in 1987. He contested from Dharmavaram as an independent in the 1994 Assembly elections and narrowly lost to G. Venkata Naidu of the TDP.

Chequered history

A change of guard in the State made him to switch political loyalties to the then ruling TDP in 1995 and turn a close associate of Paritala Ravindra, who was later killed. He, however, returned to the Congress just before the Assembly elections in 1999 and won the election from Dharmavaram by defeating G. Vijaykumar of the TDP.

He again joined the TDP in 2003 and was given party ticket to contest from Tadipatri against J.C. Diwakar Reddy in 2004. His followers were alleged to have hurled bombs on the procession of Congress activists when Mr. Diwakar Reddy was on way to file his nomination papers. Political passions have been high between the rival groups since then.

Sureedu, however, suffered from multiple health problems which forced him to keep away from active politics. A few of cases were registered against him and his brother during the Assembly elections and later.

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