The Telugu Desam Party has find it difficult to finalise the candidate for the Kurnool Assembly segment as sitting MLA S.V. Mohan Reddy and T.G. Bharath, son of T.G. Venkatesh, MP, vying for the seat.
While the supporters of Mr. Mohan Reddy argue that their leader should be given a chance to contest again, Mr. Bharat insists that he should be considered for the ticket as his father was behind the development of Kurnool.
Mr. Venkatesh won the Kurnool Assembly seat in 1999 and 2009 and lost it twice in 2004 and 2014 to M. Abdul Gafoor of CPI and S.V Mohan Reddy respectively. Mr. Reddy won the seat on the YSRCP ticket and later defected to the TDP.