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Why the Kadapa bypoll is critical for the Congress

Will the 'Ceiling Fan' blow away the hidden 'Hand'? That is what Congressmen in Andhra Pradesh  fear -- and what Jaganmohan Reddy hopes! Jaganmohan Reddy and his mother, Vijayalaxmi, were both Congress members until they left to found the YSR Congress. That, of course, meant that both the Kadapa Lok Sabha seat held by Reddy and the Pulivendula assembly seat held by his mother had to be vacated. The Election Commission decided that the by-elections would be held on May 8. The YSR Congress came into existence on March 12, 2011, much too late to go through the process of getting its own symbol. So some bright soul had a brainwave: putting up multiple candidates with the same name, to confuse voters used to symbols.

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