<p class="title">Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu's son and state IT Minister Nara Lokesh will be contesting the Assembly elections from Mangalagiri in Guntur district.</p>.<p class="title">Lokesh, who is the general secretary of the TDP, was roped into Naidu's Cabinet through the Legislative Council.</p>.<p class="title">Lokesh has interned in World Bank and has a MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.</p>.<p class="title">His wife, actor Balakrishna's daughter Brahmani, is also a graduate from Stanford and has worked in Heritage foods, her family business.</p>.<p class="title">With Naidu wanting to put Lokesh's popularity through the test, several party workers had offered their constituencies.<br /> <br />Initially, Naidu even toyed with the idea of fielding Lokesh from Kuppam, his home turf.</p>.<p class="title">Naidu has been representing Kuppam since 1983. Constituencies in Krishna district, from where party patriarch NT Rama Rao hailed, Bheemili constituency in Visakhapatnam district and the Visakhapatnam-II constituency were also considered.</p>.<p class="title">Pedakurapadu in Guntur district was an option for some time.</p>.<p class="title">The TDP lost Mangalagiri constituency to the YSR Congress candidate Alla Ramakrishna Reddy with a slender margin of 12 votes in the 2014 elections. The TDP has always allocated Mangalagiri to the alliance partners except for two times.</p>
<p class="title">Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu's son and state IT Minister Nara Lokesh will be contesting the Assembly elections from Mangalagiri in Guntur district.</p>.<p class="title">Lokesh, who is the general secretary of the TDP, was roped into Naidu's Cabinet through the Legislative Council.</p>.<p class="title">Lokesh has interned in World Bank and has a MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.</p>.<p class="title">His wife, actor Balakrishna's daughter Brahmani, is also a graduate from Stanford and has worked in Heritage foods, her family business.</p>.<p class="title">With Naidu wanting to put Lokesh's popularity through the test, several party workers had offered their constituencies.<br /> <br />Initially, Naidu even toyed with the idea of fielding Lokesh from Kuppam, his home turf.</p>.<p class="title">Naidu has been representing Kuppam since 1983. Constituencies in Krishna district, from where party patriarch NT Rama Rao hailed, Bheemili constituency in Visakhapatnam district and the Visakhapatnam-II constituency were also considered.</p>.<p class="title">Pedakurapadu in Guntur district was an option for some time.</p>.<p class="title">The TDP lost Mangalagiri constituency to the YSR Congress candidate Alla Ramakrishna Reddy with a slender margin of 12 votes in the 2014 elections. The TDP has always allocated Mangalagiri to the alliance partners except for two times.</p>
