Telangana polls 2023: BJP releases 1st list of 52 candidates; fields T Raja Singh, 3 Lok Sabha MPs. Check full list here
Arvind Dharmapuri from Koratla and Bandi Sanjay Kumar from Karimnagar. T Raja Singh will be contesting from Goshamahal. Earlier in the day, BJP revoked the suspension of MLA T Raja Singh following his reply to the show-cause notice issued by the party after a row was triggered by his remarks against Prophet Muhammad.
He was suspended in August and issued a show-cause notice. Days after his suspension, Singh had said that he was confident that the party would revoke his suspension soon, and would contest the Telangana Assembly polls from the Goshamahal constituency on the BJP ticket As per the list, Eatala Rajender will be contesting from Huzurabad and Gajwel Assembly constituency. The BJP has four Lok Sabha MPs from the state.
Union minister and its state president G Kishan Reddy is another MP whose name is not there in the first list. Meanwhile, the state is set to witness a triangular contest between the BJP, the ruling Bharat Rashtra Samithi, and the Congress in the upcoming assembly election. Speaking of the 2018 election results, BRS managed to win 88 seats out of 119 and had a dominant vote share of 47.4 per cent.
Congress came in a distant second with 19 seats. Its vote share was 28.7 per cent. Meanwhile, polls will be held in Mizoram on November 7, Chhattisgarh on November 7 and November 17, Madhya Pradesh on November 17, Rajasthan on November 25 and Telangana on November 30.
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