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Visakhapatnam: On Saturday, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) approved the names of candidates for 23 out of 25 Lok Sabha seats in Andhra Pradesh . Both of them refused to defend their seats, so the BJP nominated D.
Purandeswari, a former Congress MP, for the Visakhapatnam seat, and Paidikonda Manikyala Rao, a BJP MLA from Tadepalligudem, for the Narsapuram seat. Dr Haribabu thought that it was time for someone else to pick up the party baton, so he retired from electoral politics,” he said.“As the BJP promised, the party is contesting all the 25 Lok Sabha seats and the 175 state assembly seats in AP. We are sure to retain the two LS and four assembly seats that we won in 2014, but also hope to win additional seats in both the Lok Sabha and the assembly,” said Kesavakanth Adusumilli, president of the Visakhapatnam unit of the BJP. Both of them have been re-nominated by the TDP to defend their seats.The BJP had two members in the 16th Lok Sabha—Kambhampati Haribabu from Visakhapatnam and Gokaraju Ganga Raju from Narsapuram..