New Andhra Pradesh set for its first elections

Vijayawada: After almost a month of a long high-pitched campaign, Andhra Pradesh will go to the polls on Thursday for 175 assembly and 25 Parliament segments. It will be the first election in Andhra Pradesh after the state was divided in 2014.

The state was formally divided after the 2014 polls. Around 2118 candidates for 175 assembly and 319 for 25 Parliament segments in the fray for Thursday's high stakes poll. Thursday's poll will decide the fate of YSRC cheif YS Jagan Mohan Reddy, TD supremo N. Chandrababu Naidu and Jana Sena chief actor turned politician Pawan Kalyan.

This is the first time that after the TD was founded that the party is going on the polls without an alliance. Last time in 2014, the TD went to the polls in alliance with the BJP. Jagan's YSRC is going it alone while the Jana Sena has an alliance with the BSP and Left parties. Last time Pawan Kalyan campaigned for the TD-BJP combine. Andhra Pradesh this time, will witness a multi-cornered fight with the TD, YSRC, Jana Sena, BJP and Congress candidates in fray. Kapus and backward classes who constitute more than half of the total electorate will decide who is going to be chief minister of the state.

Andhra self-respect and pride, dominated Naidu's conspiracy theory campaign while Jagan went to people explaining what he will do if voted to power.

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