Amaravati: Janasena chief Pawan Kalyan and former Union ministers MM Pallam Raju and JD Seelam filed their nominations for the elections in Andhra Pradesh.
Actor-politician Kalyan, whose Janasena is a National Democratic Alliance (NDA) constituent in the state, was accompanied by local party leaders as he filed his nomination paper for the Pithapuram assembly seat.
“Pawan Kalyan filed his nomination as Pithapuram assembly (constituency) candidate,” Janasena said in post on X.
Raju, a Union human resource development minister in the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government, filed his nomination for the Kakinada Lok Sabha seat.
Seelam, a Union minister of state for finance in the UPA government, filed his nomination for the Bapatla Lok Sabha constituency.
A former IAS officer, Seelam will take on Nandigam Suresh of the YSR Congress Party (YSRCP).
Senior YSRCP leader V Vijayasai Reddy also filed his nomination for the Nellore Lok Sabha seat.
“I filed my nomination for the Nellore parliamentary constituency today at the Nellore district collector’s office. I wholeheartedly thank party chief YS Jagan Mohan Reddy for giving me this great opportunity,” he said in a post on X.
According to a press release from the Andhra Pradesh Chief Electoral Officer’s office, 111 nominations were filed on Tuesday for the Lok Sabha elections and 630 for the assembly polls.
Elections for the 175-member assembly and the 25 Lok Sabha seats in Andhra Pradesh will be held simultaneously on May 13. The votes will be counted on June 4.
