Lack of employment opportunities coupled with unlucrative farming make residents of Kuppam Lok Sabha constituency to travel daily to Bengaluru.
Nara Chandrababu Naidu, the former chief minister and Telugu Desam Party (TDP) chief, currently serves as the MLA for the Kuppam constituency. (Sumit Jha/South First)
Lack of employment opportunities coupled with unlucrative farming make residents of Kuppam Lok Sabha constituency travel daily to Bengaluru. Kuppam, located between Tamil Nadu and Karnataka, is a microcosm of rural South India. Its geographical location and dependence on the other two states have made the residents fluent in three languages: Telugu, Tamil, and Kannada.