HYDERABAD:
Former minister Patnam Mahendar Reddy
, who had lost in the assembly polls in December 2018, has been nominated as TRS candidate from Ranga Reddy for the MLC polls. Mahendar Reddy (67,553 votes) had lost to Congress candidate Pilot Rohit Reddy (70,428) by a small margin (2,875) to wrest the Tandur assembly seat.
In a meeting with some senior party leaders on Sunday, TRS president and chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao decided on three candidates for the MLC elections. Pochampalli Srinivas Reddy from Warangal and Thera Chinnappa Reddy would be fielded from
Nalgonda
. The polling for the Local Authorities Constituency seats would be held on May 31 and the last date for filing nominations is May 14.
Sushil Rao is Editor-Special Reports, at The Times of India, Hyde...
Read MoreSushil Rao is Editor-Special Reports, at The Times of India, Hyderabad. He began his journalism career at the age of 20 in 1988. He is a gold medalist in journalism from the Department of Communication and Journalism, Arts College, Osmania University, Hyderabad from where he did his post-graduation from. He has been with The Times of India’s Hyderabad edition since its launch in 2000. He has also done an introductory course in film studies from the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune, and also from the Central University of Kerala equipping himself with the knowledge of filmmaking for film criticism. He has authored four books. In his career spanning 34 years, he has worked for five newspapers and has also done television reporting. He was also a web journalist during internet’s infancy in the mid 1990s in India. He covers defence, politics, diaspora, innovation, administration, the film industry, Hyderabad city and Telangana state, and human interest stories. He is also a podcaster, blogger, does video reporting and makes documentaries.
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