Hyderabad: Assured of the votes of five communities, including the minorities, YSR Congress president Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy has turned his attention to the Kapu community by nominating leaders from the community for the state and general elections from Seemandhra.
In the Kapu heartland of East Godavari, West Godavari and Krishna, and parts of Guntur, the YSRC has finalised four candidates from the community for the Lok Sabha polls and 19 for the Assembly polls. Contrary to the perception that the community had moved away from the YSRC, the party is fielding Kapus in half the constituencies in the general category in these three districts.
YSRC leaders believe that Mr Reddy’s foresight will help buffer them from the impact of film star Pawan Kalyan’s Jana Sena and its likely support to the BJP-TDP combine.
