Voting for 175 Assembly seats and 25 Parliamentary seats in Andhra Pradesh is being held simultaneously in a single-phase election on Thursday. It is essentially a three-cornered fight in the State — the ruling Telugu Desam Party seeking a re-election, Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy’s YSR Congress emerging as a strong contender, and actor-turned-politician Pawan Kalyan’s Jana Sena the new entrant.
There are also the national parties the BJP and Congress contesting sans any alliance with the regional parties.