KURNOOL: Teachers are in high demand as MLC candidates are chasing them with all sorts of incentives to vote in their favour for Rayalaseema teacher’s constituency com-prising Kadapa, Kurnool and Anantapur districts.YSRC-sponsored candidate K.V. Subba Reddy, an entrepreneur who has floated a slew of educational institutions, is reportedly offering out sops, a TD leader said. Pitted against him is TD’s Bachala Pullaiah from Proddatur in Kadapa district. A one-time MLC, Pullaiah is known to be popular among the teaching fraternity. He is relying on the TD’s political promises to help sail him through the polls.
Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu endorsed him at all the public meetings as the party nominee during his visit to Rayalaseema districts in the past three months. As the campaign for MLC elections to Graduate and Teacher's constituencies comes to an end on Tuesday evening, candidates are busy wooing voters. Votes are being sold, with graduates being offered Rs 5,000 per vote and teachers Rs 10,000. The ruling TD has taken Rayalaseema West Gradu-ate’s constituency polls as a prestigious issue and is leaving no stone to ensure the victory of its candidate K.J. Reddy.
K.J. Reddy, an industrialist from Kurnool, has clearly edged out others in mass outreach in Rayalaseema districts. His opp-onent and YSRCP candidate Yennapusa Gopal Reddy largely depends on the relatives of Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy to bail him out. With 2,43,425 voters enlisted, Rayalaseema We-st constituency is the larg-est constituency in terms of voters, K.J. Reddy said.
