Gummanur Jayaram As TDP Candidate, What Cadre Will Do Now?

The TDP announced the final list of candidates for the upcoming elections. The party leadership announced candidates for the remaining MP and MLA segments. As all the seats were announced it had become clear on who would be the candidates and who would get the tickets. Seniors like Ganta Srinivasa Rao were given tickets.

The list became a sensation as a controversial leader made it to the list. Former Minister Gummanur Jayaram who defected to the TDP from the YCP was given a ticket from the Guntakal seat. This is not his sitting seat. He won two last terms from the Aluru seat.

Despite this, the former Minister was picked as the candidate from the Guntakal seat. The decision is getting a lot of attention as the TDP cadres carried out protests in the seat against him.

The local leaders opposed the idea of picking Jayram who is from the other district. Earlier this month Guntakal saw tense scenes with the local TDP leaders staging protests. They held the placards and staged a big protest saying that they will not support him.

Just the reports of Gummanur Jayaram possibly getting the ticket led to big protests by the local leaders. Back then they asked why an outsider is being preferred by the leadership in granting the tickets.

Cut to a few weeks the same candidate was selected as the contestant for the upcoming polls. Now we have to see what the local leaders would do. A section of TDP supporters say that the TDP leadership took a big decision and it might backfire as well.

Talking about Gummanur Jayaram he was made the Minister by the YCP party. He was the Minister of Labour of AP. While he eyed the Aluru seat he won twice, the party asked him to contest as the MP. But he did not like this and quit the party. Now he is the TDP candidate from the Guntakal seat.