It is now clear that Kapus of the region have indeed backed Chiranjeevi’s Prajarajyam Party so blindly but that did not ensure the party to come out with flying colours at the hustings. The PRP candidates though lost the elections have polled between 15-50 thousand votes. The only factor that seemed to have gone against Chiru’s party is that it lacked support from other communities such as BCs, SCs and minorities.

It is evident from the fact that all the three candidates, who won the election for PRP in the region are non-Kapus. While two of them are Vysyas, the other is a Kamma. The Kapu leaders, who considered themselves strong, have lost the elections because they run the show only around Kapu voters whereas the victorious leaders had the support from other communities in addition to the Kapu votes.

The PRP nominees have virtually played spoilsport with many of the Congress candidates in Krishna district. For instance, minister Mandali Budhaprasad lost the election at Avanigadda with a thin margin of just 417 votes where the PRP candidate Ramesh polled 37,656 votes. Here the TDP nominee Ambati Bramhanaiah turned victorious only because of the backing of BCs.

Another minister Pinnamaneni Venkateswara Rao lost the election to TDP’s Kodali Nani at Gudivada with a margin of about 17,000 votes where the PRP candidate polled about 21,000 votes. Though former Congress legislators and PRP’s Buragadda Vedavyas and Vangaveeti Radhakrishna secured 35,000 and 51,000 votes respectively, they could not snatch victories due to the drifting away of other community votes.

Vedavyas jumped the fence only a few weeks before the polls to PRP and contested from Machilipatnam constituency. His migration to the all-new Machilipatnam constituency seems to have not got the acceptance of the other communities in the constituency as they believe that he shifted to Machilipatnam from his native Pedana (previously he represented Malleswaram) only keeping in view of the strong Kapu vote base in the port town.

Curiously, Vedavyas came third way behind TDP’s Kollu Ravindra, a BC. Nani won the seat with a majority of 11,399 votes. In all, the PRP polled a good 4,78,774 votes in Krishna district but it returned with only two assembly seats out of the 16 at stake. While the ruling Congress secured seven seats with 9.02 lakh votes, TDP too bagged an equal number of seats with 9.14 lakh votes.

Except for the lightweight PRP nominee at Jaggiahapet, Kota Kishore who got 2043, all others -B Ramu (Gannavaram-19,806), R V Rao (Gudivada-21,582), K Srinivas (Kaikalur-49,372), M Veerraju (Pedana-29,172), M Mohan Rao (Pamarru-23,438), M Vijayanirmala (Nuziveedu-24,786), D Mohan (Penamalur-31,868) polled handsome votes.

Even in Guntur new faces like M Sudhakar (Macherla-16,368), T Venkatesh (Ponnur-30,247), K Vijayakumar (Narasaraopet-17,220), D Chakravarthi (Sattenapalle-25,522), Katti Padma Rao (Vemur-23,300), Santhi Jyothi (Tadikonda-15,969) and Seetharamaiah (Bapatla-15,911) secured good votes.

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Major irrigation minister P Lakshmaiah, who won with a wafer-thin margin of 44 votes may lose his cabinet post, sources said. Lakshmaiah may be considered for the post of the PCC chief. The possibility of making him the Assembly Speaker also cannot be discounted.

YSR will also have to search for a suitable Muslim candidate to replace energy minister Mohd Shabbir Ali who lost the polls. Among the new faces who are likely to be inducted into the cabinet are chief whip N Kiran Kumar Reddy, D Sridhar Babu, D L Ravindra Reddy, B Usharani (another giant killer from Palakollu who defeated Chiranjeevi) and K Rambhupal Reddy from Panyam in Kurnool district. However, the selection of the aspirants would have to be based on the caste and regional equations, party sources said.

The Congress Legislature Party is likely to meet on Monday to elect YSR as the leader. He is expected to take oath as CM on May 20 and leave for Bethlehem on May 23 on pilgrimage.

Reddy is scheduled to return on May 30 after which the Assembly would meet for a fullfledged budget session in the first week of June.

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Sources say that from the last few weeks the candidates those have bought tickets from Allu Aravind got doubts and are running behind him to pay back as they would like to withdraw. Even after the election they have forced Aravind to give back at least some percentage of their money as they are not sure of winning.

Grapevine says that then Chiranjeevi has come into scene and said, “Don’t worry. Even if you lose in your constituency, we are coming to power and forming government. You will be given good contracts and your money will always be safe”.

But now the result is out and Allu Aravind himself lost the game fully. We have to see if Allu Aravind gives back the money or runs away, says a victim of Rs 1.5 Cr from Ongole.

Anil Reddy, who contested from Adilabad as PRP candidate took Rs 1 Cr for 2% interest and bought the ticket. He already spent Rs 50 lakh from his pocket. He thought that the ticket is confirmed free of cost as he is close to Allu Aravind. But in the last moment Allu demanded Rs 1 Cr and hence Anil had to go for getting that for interest. Now he lost interest on PRP and is also struggling to pay interest for Rs 1 Cr as well. Even Anil is with anguish and looking if Aravind pays back at least some amount, say sources.

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