The first list of Telangana Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP’s) candidates contesting the Assembly election is finally out with 52 names cleared by the central election committee under the presidentship of Jagat Prakash Nadda and also attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, Home Minister Amit Shah and all other members of the committee on October 22.
As was expected, former State party president and Karimnagar MP Bandi Sanjay Kumar will be contesting from the Karimnagar constituency and former Minister and election campaign coordination committee chairman Eatala Rajender will be taking on Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao at Gajwel besides his own constituency of Huzurabad. Nizamabad MP Dharmapuri Aravind will be contesting from Koratla and Adilabad MP Soyam Babu Rao from Boath.
Goshamahal MLA T. Raja Singh, whose suspension was revoked a short while ago, will be contesting from the same constituency. Incidentally, he was the only MLA elected from the party in the 2018 election. Dubbak MLA M. Raghunandan Rao who won a byelection, will be contesting from the same constituency, while former MLA Chintala Ramchandra Reddy will be once again trying his luck from the Khairatabad constituency. Another noted candidate is the elder brother of BRS Minister Erraballi Dayakar Rao, Erraballi Pradeep Rao getting a ticket for Warangal East.
