The Congress on Wednesday introduced the names of candidates for six extra Lok Sabha constituencies and 12 Assembly seats in Andhra Pradesh.

As per the choice of the occasion’s Central Election Committee, former Tirupati MP C Mohan will contest the Lok Sabha election from the identical reserved (SC) constituency and Okay Raju is the candidate for Nellore phase.

P Satyanarayana Reddy is the candidate from Visakhapatnam Lok Sabha constituency, V Venkatesh (Anakapalli), Okay Lavanya (Eluru) and G Alexander Sudhakar (Narsaraopeta), mentioned AICC normal secretary Okay C Venugopal in a press launch.

Out of the 12 Assembly candidates, two turncoats– Okay Kruparani and M S Babu– discovered place within the listing. Former union minister Kruparani, who just lately jumped ship from YSRCP to Congress will contest from Tekkali constituency and Babu from Puthalapattu (SC), amongst others.

On April 2, Andhra Pradesh Congress Committee (APCC) president Y S Sharmila had introduced the names of candidates for 5 Lok Sabha and 114 Assembly seats.

With at present’s announcement, Congress introduced the names of candidates for 126 Assembly and 11 Lok Sabha candidates whereas it additionally struck a seat sharing take care of the CPI, which can contest in a single Lok Sabha and eight Assembly seats.

The Communist Party of India (CPI), Congress and CPI (M) are INDIA alliance companions in Andhra Pradesh.

Elections for the 175-member Assembly and 25 Lok Sabha seats in Andhra Pradesh are scheduled to be held on May 13 and the counting of votes will happen on June 4.