Telangana Assembly Elections 2023: BJP announces final list of 14 candidates. Check details here
Telangana Assembly Elections 2023: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Friday released its final list of 14 candidates for the November 30 polls in Telangana. The candidates include senior leader N Ramachander Rao, a former MLC, who has been fielded from Malkajgiri here.
The other candidates in the list are — A Sridevi (Bellampalli-SC), Dugyala Pradeep (Peddapalli), Deshpande Rajeshwar Rao (Sangareddy), Yenugu Sudarshan Reddy (Medchal), Ravi Kumar Yadav (Serilingampally), Rahul Chandra (Nampalli), K Mahender (Chandrayangutta), Sri Ganesh Narayan (Secunderabad Cantonment-SC), Konda Prashant Reddy (Devarkadra), Anugna Reddy (Wanaparthy), Rajagopal (Alampur-SC), K Pulla Rao (Narsampet) and Perumarpally Vijaya Raju (Madhira-SC). BJP sources, as quoted by PTI, also said that its NDA ally Janasena of actor-turned-politician Pawan Kalyan would contest eight out of the total 119 seats in the assembly polls.
On November 2, the saffron party announced the names of 35 candidates for the upcoming Telangana Assembly elections, just hours after the party's Central Election Committee met in Delhi to finalize the names of its remaining candidates for the Rajasthan and Telangana polls. The list featured several ST and ST candidates as well as one woman candidate.
Challa Srilatha Reddy will be pitted against BRS' Shanampudi Saidireddy from the Huzurnagar constituency. The BJP has also fielded Lankala Deepak Reddy against cricketer Mohammad Azharuddin (Congress) in the Jubilee Hills constituency.
Two BJP parliament members – G Kishan Reddy and K Laxman – who earlier unsuccessfully contested for Telangana Assembly have been kept aside for the November 30 polls. Meanwhile, BRS MLA Rathod Bapu Rao and Congress leader Chalamala Krishna Reddy
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