Hyderabad: The BJP has further scaled down the number of seats it is contesting in Seemandhra, giving up a Lok Sabha and an Assembly seat to alliance partner TD. In exchange, they will get two MLC seats.
Seemandhra BJP president K. Haribabu, and TD MP Sujana Chowdary finalised the quota of seats on Sunday evening and conveyed the same to TD president N. Chandrababu Naidu.
Under the new seat sharing agreement, the BJP agreed to forego the Araku (ST) Lok Sabha and will contest only the Visakhapatnam, Narsapuram, Tirupati (SC) and Rajampet LS seats. The BJP will contest 14 Assembly seats from Seemandhra, instead of 15; it has dropped Gajapathinagaram.
It also agreed to swap four Assembly seats offered earlier. The 14 Assembly seats the BJP will contest are: Itchapuram (instead of Narasannapet), Kodumuru (for Rajampet), Guntakal (for Anantapur), Kaikalur (for Giddalur), Visakhapatnam North, Paderu (ST), Rajahmundry, Tadepalligudem, Vijayawada (West), Santanutalapadu, Kadapa, Madanapalle, Narasaraopet, and Nellore Rural.
