Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) election campaign committee chairman Eatala Rajender will take on BRS president and Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao from Gajwel constituency and the party brought back and renominated suspended legislator T. Raja Singh from Goshamahal.
Sources said the first list of 55 BJP candidates, reportedly cleared by its central election committee on Saturday, has three MPs — Bandi Sanjay (Karimnagar), Dharmapuri Sanjay (Korutla) and Soyam Bapu Rao (Boath ST) — party’s national vice-president D. K. Aruna is to contest from Gadwal. Former MP A.P.Jithender Reddy will test his luck from Mahabubnagar constituency.
Sitting MLA from Dubbak Raghunandan has been renominated while the State unit chief and Union Minister G. Kishan Reddy has been exempted and will not contest from Amberpet as speculated earlier. Senior party leaders and former MLA Chintala Ramachandra Reddy is to contest from Khairatabad seat while former MLA N.V.V.S. Prabhakar will contest from Uppal.
