
Daggubati Purandeshwari took charge as the AP BJP President in July 2023 and the term is nearing completion. The new President should be selected by this month-end.
There are at least ten contenders for this post. Vijayawada West MLA Sujana Chowdary and Adoni MLA Parthasarathy’s names are being prominently heard.
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PVS Madhav from Uttarandhra and Paka Satyanarayana from Kostha are also under contention.
Former CM Kiran Kumar Reddy and Suresh Reddy from the Nellore district are also fancying their chances.
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Vishnu Vardhan Reddy is also lobbying for a chance. He has got the recommendation of Kishan Reddy, the Union Minister from Telangana.
TDP Cadres suspect that Kishan Reddy is trying to help Jagan Mohan Reddy with this recommendation. Kishan Reddy is rumored to be inclined towards Jagan Mohan Reddy as they are from same community. They say he always acted against TDP whenever there was an alliance between the TDP and BJP.
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Keeping that aside, Vishnu Vardhan Reddy is clearly anti-TDP.
He along with the likes of Somu Veerraju and GVL Narasimha Rao worked hard to foil the alliance between 2014 and 2019.
Later, we saw them being vocal support of the YSR Congress Government.
But when TDP and BJP allied in 2024, they were kept aside completely to facilitate a smooth relationship.
We will have to see if the BJP high command continues to keep that batch away especially because the Central Government is dependent of the seats of TDP now.