In a bid to ensure victory for the fifth successive time in Yanam constituency,congress candidate and sitting member Malladi Krishna Rao was engaged in active campaigning in the region.
Mr.Rao who won the constituency as an indelendent in 1996 and 2001 assembly elections won the seat as a congress candidate in 2006 and 2001 and now he is the candidate for the May 16 assembly elections.A victory this time would help Malladi to equal the record set by Kamichetti Sri Parasurama Varaprasada Rao Naidu who won the seat from 1964 to 1985.
For a change Mr.Malladi is banking on congress national leaders for his campaigning ,ignoring Puducherry leaders,presumably due to the lack of intimacy for them in the region.In his election vehicles and posters,Mr.Rao is using the picture of Mrs.Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi alone.
Since,yanam remains a fort of the congress Mr.malladi is facing the electionsthis time with the condition that he shold be made a minister,and the post of a nominated member to his supporter in the case of his victory and congress party winning to form the government here.
