Chief minister Kiran Kumar Reddy and PCC chief Botsa satyanarayana are in Delhi on Tuesday to finalize party candidates for the upcoming byelections for 18 assembly and 1 lok sabha seat. Though they are yet to meet the party president Sonia Gandhi, PCC chief released a list of candidates, which is to be confirmed by the president. Botsa said that the names now given are almost confirmed and only have to be okayed by the high command. However, candidates for four assembly seats - Macherla, Polavaram, Ananthapur and Parkal have not yet been decided hence kept in pending for another couple of days.

Here's the latest list of Congress candidates for the bypolls:
1 . Narasannapeta - Dharmana Ramdas
2 . Ramachandrapuram - Thota Thrimoortulu
3 . Payakaraopeta - Gantela Sumana
4 . Allagadda - Gangula Prathap Reddy
5 . Raidurgam - Patil Venugopal Reddy
6 . Rajampeta - Meda Mallikarjuna Reddy
7 . Rly. Koduru - Eashwaraiah
8 . Nellore (Lok Sabha) - T Subbarami Reddy
9 . Narasapuram - Kotthapalli Subbarayudu
10. Pratthipadu - TJR Sudhakar Babu
11. Ongole - Magunta Parvathamma
12. Udayagiri - Kambham Vijayarami Reddy
13. Tirupathi - Mannuru Venkataramana
14. Yemmiganuru - Rudra Goud
15. Rayachoti - Ramprasada Reddy
16. Macherla - Pending
17. Polavaram - Pending
18. Parkal - Pending
19. Ananthapur - Pending.