The Congress party offered the Vizianagaram mayor's seat to Ishwarya Lakshmi Yadav. Gidugu Rudra Raju held discussions with local leaders before finalising her name. The party said she got the ticket for her services. Mr. Rudra Raju said, "The Congress would prove its strength in Vizianagaram," targeting the city's past development.
Vizianagaram District Congress Committee women's wing President Ishwarya Lakshmi Yadav got the Vizianagaram mayoral seat. Congress Working Committee member and former PCC President Gidugu Rudra Raju, who is in charge of Vizianagaram district, held discussions with the District Congress Committee President Maripi Vidya Sagar and other leaders before finalising her name for the post. Other leaders have also unanimously agreed for her candidature.
The party leaders said that she was given the ticket after considering her services to the party as well as people in the last few years. Speaking to the media here, Mr. Rudra Raju said that the Congress would prove its strength in Vizianagaram. He said that both TDP and YSRCP had ignored its development in the last 12 years. Mr. Vidya Sagar said that the party had given tickets to youngsters and women to contest as corporators in 62 divisions of Vizianagaram city.