His third tryst in the Assembly Elections will be against TDP Parita Sunitha's son Paritala Sriram. He runs a charitable trust in his name and is always accessible to the people in the constituency. He has been struggling hard to ring in wave of change in the otherwise faction-ridden place of Penugonda -Rapthadu politics. Prakash Reddy is an engineering graduate and has worked extremely hard as YSRCP Rapthadu constituency coordinator.
But that hasn't deterred him from contesting again and YSRCP leader YS Jagan Mohan Reddy has reposed faith in him and has given him the ticket for Rapthadu assembly. YRSCP Candidate Topudurthi Prakash Reddy lost to Paritala Sunitha, during last two elections. Paritala Sunithamma (TDP) wife of slain TDP leader Paritala Ravindra is the present MLA of Raptadu Legislative Assembly. The Rapthadu assembly segment was formed during delimitation process five years ago after a few mandals of Penukonda-Kanaganipalli, CK Palli and Ramagiri were split and merged into Rapthadu.
The BJP, INC, YSRCP and the TDP got %, 0.77%, 46.47% and 50.79% votes respectively in 2014 Assembly Election while %, 0.86%, 46.12% and 51.04% in 2014 Parliamentary Election respectively. Voter turnout in the 2014 assembly election was 84.52% where as it was 83.93% in 2014 Lok Sabha Elections. As per the estimates of 2011 census, 80.64% is rural and 19.36% is urban population.Īccording the voter list of 2018, there are 2,12,543 voters and 270 polling stations in this constituency. Raptadu /Anantapur: Raptadu Assembly constituency is located in Anantapur district of Andhra Pradesh and comes under the Hindupur Lok Sabha constituency.