Vijayawada:  YSRCP General Secretary and AP Government Advisor Sajjala Ramakrishna Reddy announced the list of MLCs under local body constituencies’ quota on Friday. Speaking on the occasion at Tadepalli camp office he said that YSRCP announced 11 candidates for 11 vacancies in the Legislative Council according to the social engineering.

YSRCP nominated 50% of seats to SC/ ST/BC and Minorities and the remaining 50% to other castes i.e. Reddy (2), Kamma (2). Veteran leader and former Union Minister of State Ummareddy Venkateswarlu have been renominated by the YSRCP. He was the YSRCP floor leader in the Legislative Council and his term had ended in June this year.

Raghu Raju of Vizianagaram, Varudhu Kalyani and Vamshi Krishna Yadav of Visakhapatnam, Anantha Babu of East Godavari, Talasila Raghuram and Mondithoka Arun Kumar of Krishna, Ummareddy Venkateswarulu and Murugudu Hanumantha Rao of Guntur, Thumati Madhava Rao of Prakasam, Barath Krishna of Chittoor and Y Siva Rami Reddy of Anantapur are the candidates announced by the YSRCP. YSRCP announced Palavalasa Vikrant of Srikakulam, Ishaq Basha of Kurnool and DC Govindar Reddy of YSR Kadapa district as nominees under the MLA quota.

He pointed out that of 18 members who are currently in legislative council, 11 people belong to BC, SC and minorities and added that once the recently announced candidates win the elections, 18 out of 32 members in Legislative Council would be from BC, SC and Minority classes.

He said for the first time in the history of the Legislative Council there will be four members belonging to Minorities. Elections to 11 seats of the Legislative Council from LACs quota are scheduled to be held on December 10^th. Elections to three seats from MLA quota will be held on November 29^th.