Bharatiya Janata Party’s Telangana unit on Wednesday revealed its second list of 16 likely candidates contesting the forthcoming elections to the Legislative Assembly after the meeting of the State election committee where all the top leaders led by party chief K. Laxman participated.
Prominent among those being chosen include a builder Yoganand for contesting from the Serilingampally constituency and former legislator Baddam Bal Reddy from Rajendranagar. Later, the BJP leaders left to New Delhi to get the list cleared by the Central Election Committee meeting of the party leadership scheduled to meet in Delhi tomorrow.
About 10 days ago, the party had announced 38 names in the first list and with this it has so far chosen 54 candidates for the 119 constituencies in total.
Following are the likely candidates and the constituencies from where they will be contesting from: Shehzade - Chandrayanagutta, Uma Mahender - Charminar, Hanif Ali - Bahadurpura, Ale Jitendra - Malakpet, Rupraj - Yakutpura, M. Kanta Rao - Kukatpally, D. Sridhar Reddy - Aler.
Nagurao Namoji - Kondangal, Padmaja Reddy - Mahabubnagar, A. Narasimhulu - Devarakadra, B. Vanita - Ramagundam, K. Ranga Kiran - Kothagudem, Y. Lakshminarayana - Nizamabad and K. Ashok Goud - Ibrahimpatnam.
Sardar Patel
Earlier in the day, the BJP leaders participated in the birth anniversary celebrations of Sardar Vallabhai Patel by garlanding the statue at Nampally. “There would have been no Telangana or the Telangana Rastra Samithi (TRS) if there was no Sardar Patel who took the decisive Police Action to bring the then Nizam to accede to the country,” said Mr. Laxman and lambasted all the previous governments along with the TRS for not celebrating the Liberation Day of September 17, 1948.
The true tribute to Sardar Patel was in officially celebrating the day, he said and this can happen only if the BJP came to power in Telangana, he affirmed and charged the Congress, TD and TRS governments of not having any official function to commemorate the day only because of their dealing with the Majlis Party. Former Union minister Bandaru Dattatreya, MLC N. Ramachandra Rao, G. Kishan Reddy and others took part.