AICC central election committee (CEC) on Friday is understood to have approved the names of 60 candidates for the Assembly elections to Telangana amid high expectations and suspense over, who gets the nod for the tickets.
The remaining names are likely to be considered and approved once AICC president Mallikarjun Kharge, who is touring Karnataka, returns to New Delhi.
Congress sources said the screening committee headed by MP Muralidharan and others held a meeting on Friday morning and gave the go ahead to the list they had prepared. The same was put before the CEC which, according to sources approved 60 names. Most of these are constituencies where the screening committee had recommended single names.
