vijayawada andhra pradesh chief minister y s jagan mohan reddy is understood to have cleared the names of candidates for the four rajya sabha seats he held a meeting with party top leaders v vijayasai reddy y v subba reddy and sajjala ramakrishna reddy at his tadepalli camp office on tuesday where he cleared the names ysr congress parliamentary party leader v vijayasai reddy bjp members suresh prabhu y s chowdary and t g venkatesh are retiring on june 21 the election commission had released schedule for the election to these four rs seats and the notification is to be released on may 21 sources say that the chief minister had agreed to give one more term to his lieutenant vijayasai reddy he also cleared the name of industrialist beeda masthan rao advocateturnedfilm producer s niranjan reddy and bc leader r krishnaiah for the three posts the cm had initially offered the rs seat to former central minister and film star k chiranjeevi who declined to accept it sources say that the chief minister had also agreed to leave one post to the adani family however gautham adani too opted out of the race the names of former central minister killi kruparani also appeared in the debates in tadepalli for a while her candidature was considered in both women and bc quota however jagan mohan reddy finally tilted towards krishnaiah who represents the bcs in the two telugu states the name of party senior leader marri rajasekhar from guntur district also was in the news for some time as probable candidate for the rajya sabha election interestingly industrialist masthan rao from nellore too was a tdp leader and joined the ysr congress only after the 2019 elections however he was offered better position in the party by jagan when masthan rao joined the party accordingly jagan named him for the rajya sabha seat krishnaiah was elected as tdp mla from l b nagar in hyderabad in 2014 however he left the tdp after the 2019 elections and joined the congress jagan mohan reddy surprised everyone by nominating him for the rajya sabha from the state krishnaiah met the chief minister in the evening and thanked him for nominating him to the rajya sabha he was spotted in tadepalli all through the day meeting the senior leaders of the party and waiting for the chief minister to come from his kurnool district tourandhra pradesh cm clears names of four rajya sabha nominees