Posted By: Latha Jayaprakash Posted Date: 21 May 2009
2009 Lok Sabha Election Results Kurnool Lok Sabha Constituency KOTLA JAYA SURYA PRAKASH REDDY of the Indian National Congress is the winner of the Lok Sabha elections 2009 Total No Of Candidates - 10 KOTLA JAYA SURYA PRAKASH REDDY - INC - 382974 B.T.NAIDU - TDP - 308895 DR.DANDIYA KHAJA PEERA - PRAP - 114845 V.V. RAMANA - IND - 12951 RAJU - IND - 11533 GADDAM RAMAKRISHNA - BSP - 11542 RAVI SUBRAMANYAM K.A. - BJP - 8268 JALLI VENKATESH - LSP - 8398 B.NAGA JAYA CHANDRA REDDY - RDMP - 4088 DR.P.R.PARAMESWAR REDDY - PPOI - 4875 DEVI RAMALINGAPPA - IND - 3339
Posted By: Revanth Posted Date: 17 Feb 2014
Importance of this Kurnool Constituency: Kurnool city is the administrative capital for Kurnool district which is present in west-central part of Andhra Pradesh. Before the merger of Andhra and Telangana, Kurnool is the capital of Andhra and Hyderabad is the capital of Telangana. After the merger of both the states Hyderabad will be the Capital. Kurnool Lok Sabha Constituency is the one of the four constituencies of Rayalaseema. It is the border district of Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka. Major tourist place from this constituency are “Belum Caves", the second largest caves in the Indian subcontinent located in this district. These caves are spread in the area of 3229 metres. The temples of lord siva are Mahanandi temple and Srisailam are the biggest temples present in this district. Srisailam dam is the multipurpose dam present built across the river Krishna to cater the needs of Irrigation, Drinking water and Electricity. It is the second biggest dam present in Andhra Pradesh after Nagarjuna sagar. Kurnool district is known for Dramas, with most of the Telugu drama originating from this region. Being the first capital of Andhra, Kurnool district has well developed infrastructure like Educational Institutions, Public Hospitals and green roads. This Kurnool Lok Sabha constituency is agriculturally and industrially well developed. Agriculture is the main source of income for this constituency. This constituency is well connected by means of road, rail and airways. Official website of this constituency is http://kurnool.nic.in/ Population in this district: Total population from this district is 4,046,601 out of these 17,96,214 are male and 17,33,280 are females who are going to decide the fate of the parties in the coming 2014 general elections. Political analysis of the constituency: This constituency has come into existence in the year 1952. First MP from this constituency was Y. Gadilingana Gowd (1952-57) from Praja Socialist Party. Congress won for the first time in 1957 and its candidate was Osman Ali Khan. Totally 15 Lok Sabha elections were held in this constituency & out of this Congress had won 11 times followed by Telugu Desam party (TDP) which has won 2 times in the year 1984 and 1999. This constituency was the hot spot for the congress in 2004 and 2009 Lok sabha constituency. Kotla Vijaya Bhaskar reddy had won 6 times and served as the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh and his son Kotla Jayasurya Prakasha Reddy had won two times are the main leaders of congress. “Kotla" family has much popularity in this constituency, due to which Congress has won many times. Present Political analysis: Kurnool Lok Sabha constituency is an important constituency for three parties Congress, TDP and YSRCP. Especially for YSRC it is the deciding factor they must have to won this constituency because this party in these four district of Rayalaseema and more over this party origins from this constituency. TDP also giving tough fight for YSRC party and we can expect an interesting fight in this constituency. Not only these two parties Chief Minister Kiran Kumar Reddy likely going to make new party which they are going to contest in this constituency. Lok Satta and other independents are also going to contest for the coming 16th Lok Sabha elections. Major political campaign subjects of the constituency: All the parties already started their political campaigns in that TDP and YSRCP are in front place compared to another party. Reddy Community is large in this constituency & most of the parties finalised their candidates from this community to bag the votes from this community. YSRC party has strong cadre in both Reddy Communities as well as in Dalit there are using the name of former chief minister Late Y.S. Raja Sakar Reddy to win in this poll. TDP is exposing the failures of present government and Corruption cases against YSRC party leader and they are using the sentiment of United Andhra as their major political campaigns. Lok Satta party going to contest in the elections by not using money and muscle power & they are exposing the corruption and the ill governance of traditional parties. This party did not have enough cadre to win but they are targeting the youth. Other parties and some independent leaders are using separate Rayalaseema as their political campaign to win in this constituency. Profile of Kotla Jayasurya Prakasha Reddy: He was born on 18 Sep 1951 in Hyderabad. He completed his B.A. Educated at Nizam College, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh. He is Agriculturist. His father Kotla Vijaya Bhaskar reddy is the prominent leader of congress party and Ex-Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh. He first elected to 10th Lok Sabha in the year 1991 later he won in 2004 and 2009 from Kurnool Lok Sabha Constituency. He did several posts both in state and central governments some are Union Minister State, Railways and Member, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas. Candidates for coming elections: Kotla Jayasurya Prakasha Reddy(Party not decided may be Independent) B.T.Naidu- Telugu Desam Party. S.C.Mohan Reddy-YSRC Party. Vasantha Kumar- Lok Satta Party. Congress not yet finalised its nominee for coming elections.