Bjp Releases Second List of Candidates for Telangana Polls

BJP releases second list of candidates for Telangana polls

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Hyderabad, Nov 2 (PTI) BJP Friday released its second list of 28 candidates for the coming Telangana assembly elections. Baddam Bal Reddy and Endala Lakshminarayana, MLAs in the undivided Andhra Pradesh assembly, are among the prominent in the list. Bal Reddy, who had earlier represented Karwan in Hyderabad, would contest from Rajendranagar.

The assembly segment mainly comprises areas on the periphery of Hyderabad. Lakshminarayana would test his fortunes from Nizamabad Urban constituency, which he had represented earlier. BJP, which is going it alone in the December 7 elections to the 119-member assembly, has earlier released itsfirst list of 38 nominees on October 20. The latest list was finalised by the Central Election Committee of the BJP which met Thursday under the presidentship of party chief Amit Shah in Delhi. The meeting was attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Rajnath Singh and other senior leaders and members of the committee, a BJP release said. The announcement of candidates triggered protests by supporters of aspirants who failed to get the party ticket.

While the party named G Yoganand, who is intoconstruction business, as the nominee from Serilingampalliassembly segment in Hyderabad, the supporters of an aspirantfor the ticket held protest at the BJP office here. In Nizamabad, a group of people, stated to be thesupporters of an aspirant, damaged furniture at the partyoffice after their leader was denied the ticket. Shah had kicked off the party's campaign for theTelangana polls on September 15 at Mahabubnagar and addressedanother rally at Karimnagar lat month. BJP had five MLAs in the recently dissolved stateassembly.