Kondapalli Srinivas

Profile & Insights

• 1Kondapalli Srinivas secured the Gajapathinagaram seat for the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) in the 2024 assembly elections, defeating the YSRCP incumbent Appalanarasayya Botcha with a decisive margin of 25,301 votes.
• 2This victory marks a significant swing back to the TDP in a constituency that has oscillated between the two major parties over the last decade.
• 3While the TDP won the seat in 2014 by 19,423 votes, it faced a setback in 2019 when the YSRCP claimed victory with a 27,011-vote lead.
• 4Srinivas effectively reclaimed the seat amidst a high voter engagement level, reflected in the robust 87.27% turnout.
• 5A highly educated representative, Srinivas holds a postgraduate degree and declared assets totaling approximately ₹15.58 crore against liabilities of around ₹1.5 crore in his election affidavit.
• 6His legal profile remains relatively clean with only a single criminal case reported.
• 7This electoral result underscores the competitive nature of the Vizianagaram Lok Sabha segment, as the electorate shifted its preference back to the TDP, nearly mirroring the margin by which the party had previously lost the seat five years earlier.