The Election Commission declared eleven independent candidates in the Kadappa Lok Sabha constituency as ‘dummy candidates’ and withdrew all the privileges given to them. Of the eleven, the EC issued notices to seven. Three were found to be campaigning for Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy of the YSR Congress party, while two others were supporting the Indian National Congress candidate D.L. Ravindra Reddy. The EC served show cause notices to both Jaganmohan and Ravindra Reddy, asking them why the expenditure incurred by these independent candidates should not be treated as their expenditure.
