HYDERABAD:
TRS supremo
and
Telangana chief minister
K Chandrasekhar Rao
seems to have taken the tried and tested route while finalising candidates for the upcoming legislative council elections.
While the official announcement will be made on Tuesday, party sources said names of
Gutha Sukhender Reddy
,
Kadiyam Srihari
,
Padi Kaushik Reddy
, MC Koti Reddy, Takkalapally Ravinder Rao, Erolla Srinivas and Akula Lalitha have been finalised. All of these names were frontrunners in the race with hardly any surprises.
Going by the list, the party is considering two SCs, one BC woman and three OCs to represent the upper castes. KCR reportedly called up the candidates and informed them about their candidature.
Sukhender Reddy, Kadiyam Srihari and Akula Lalitha will get a second term in the council. Sources added that Sukhender Reddy will be sent to the upper house through the governor’s quota. He will replace Kaushik Reddy, whose nomination governor Tamilisai Soudararajan was unwilling to approve.
In another significant development, Siddipet collector P Venkatrama Reddy took voluntary retirement and is likely to join the TRS. He will contest the MLC poll on a TRS ticket under the local authority constituency either from Medak or from his native district of Karimnagar. He had about one year left to retirement.
The name of former deputy CM Kadiyam Srihari, who belongs to the SC community, was finalised because he played an active role in popularising the Dalit Bandhu scheme. Similarly, another SC leader, Erolla Srinivas worked as the first chairman of Telangana SC commission.
The TRS president has decided to give an opportunity to party general secretary Takallapally Ravinder Rao, a Velama, after considering his service to the party.
Under the women’s and BC quota, Akula Lalitha has been given chance. She belongs to Munnuru Kapu community.
M C Koti Reddy, a leader from Nalgonda, got an opportunity in the council as KCR had promised to accommodate him during the Nagarjuna Sagar by-election earlier this year. Koti Reddy joined the party from the Congress during the election.
Sources added that KCR considered former council speaker S Madhusudhana Chary’s name too, but instead decided to send him to the Rajya Sabha next year.
The Election Commission of India (ECI) has notified elections to six vacancies under the MLA quota and 12 vacancies under local authority constituency quota and other constituencies. Under MLA quota, last date for filing nomination is Tuesday and polling will be held on November 29.
The second round of elections will take place soon as the last date for filing nominations (second notification for filling up 12 seats) will end on November 23 and polling will be held on December 10.
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