Three Lok Sabha MPs in BJP’s list of 52 candidates for upcoming Assembly polls in Telangana – Firstpost
The BJP also ticketed T Raja Singh from its Goshamahal seat after revoking his suspension, carried out last year for alleged insulting remarks against Prophet Mohammad.
Three Lok Sabha MPs, including former Telangana Speaker Bandi Sanjay Kumar, on Sunday figured in the BJP’s first list of 52 candidates for the November 30 assembly elections.
The BJP also gave its ticket to its Hindutva leader T Raja Singh from its Goshamahal seat after revoking his suspension, carried out last year for alleged insulting remarks against Prophet Mohammad.
BJP releases first list of candidates for upcoming assembly elections in Telangana.
Party MLAs Soyam Bapu Rao came from Boath, Arvind Dharmapuri from Koratla and Bandi Sanjay Kumar from Karimnagar.
T Raja Singh at the Goshamahal competition. pic.twitter.com/IkghIilEpM
-ANI (@ANI) October 22, 2023
Its election committee chairperson, Etela Rajender, was nominated from Huzurabad, a seat the former BRS leader represents in the outgoing assembly.
Kumar was sent from Karimnagar and two other MLAs, Soyam Bapu Rao and Dharmapuri Arvind, from Boath and Koratla.
The BJP has four Lok Sabha MPs from the state. Union Minister and State Speaker G Kishan Reddy is another MLA whose name does not figure in the first list.
The BJP is striving to emerge as the main challenger to the ruling BRS, while the Congress is also putting up a tough fight.
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