Anantapur Parliamentary Constituency is located in Anantapur district of Andhra Pradesh. As per the estimates of 2011 census, out of a total of 20,57,443, 66.26% is rural and 33.74% is urban population.

The Assembly Constituencies in Anantapur Parliamentary Constituency are Rayadurg, Uravakonda, Guntakal, Tadpatri, Singanamala (SC), Anantapur Urban and Kalyandurg According to the voter list of 2018, there are 14,54,626 voters and 1786 polling stations in this constituency. Voter turnout in the 2014 Parliamentary election was 78.87% where the INC, the TDP and the YSRCP got 1.38%, 50.35% and 45.23% votes respectively in 2014-parliamentary elections.

J.C. Diwakar Reddi (TDP) is the present Lok Sabha MP of Anantapur Parliamentary Constituency. He defeated Anantha Venkataramireddy of the YSRCP in 2014 elections. Talari Rangaiah a new comer was named as the Anantapur YSRCP MP candidate.

To make way for his son, J Pawan Reddy’s political career, he has abstained from contesting the parliamentary elections.

Meanwhile JC Diwakar Reddy’ s son JC Pawan Reddy, a Nizam college graduate claims that he is not new to politics and has campaigned with his father JC Diwakar Reddy several times. He is hardly seen in the district or even in his home turf of Tadipathri, except for an occasional appearance on and off as he lives in Hyderabad. The local TDP leaders are also not keen on supporting the JC family and Diwaker Reddy’s nasty bouts with the locals have also weakened their reputation and hold in the district. Whether his father’s infamous reputation will get Pawan Reddy through or prove an obstacle in the elections will be known on May 23.

Talari Rangaiah, a former District Rural Development Agency (DRDA) Project Director, who took voluntary retirement to join politics, has been quite dynamic in the district activities in his role as a project director and thoroughly aware of the problems in the district at the ground level. He has come to be known as PD (project director ) Rangaiah than his surname and whether it is about the water problem, weavers issues, civic problems etc. With over 20 years of experience in his job he has seen the remotest of villages in the district and understands their problems . As a common man he has given confidence in the locals that he can represent the constituency in the parliament.

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