Former chairman of Telangana Legislative Council, Gutha Sukhender Reddy, filed his nomination today for re-election to the same post on Sunday.
Mr. Reddy’s was the only nomination filed on behalf of the Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) which has 36 members in a House of 40. Of the four other members, two are from TRS’ friendly party Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM), one represented the Congress and the other teachers constituency. The Congress member T. Jeevan Reddy and the teachers representative Narsi Reddy also supported the candidature of Mr. Sukhender Reddy. This effectively sealed any contest for the post.
Mr. Reddy was accompanied by four Ministers - Mohammed Mahmood Ali, V. Prashant Reddy, Satyavathi Rathod and G. Jagdish Rathod - and twenty MLAs and MLCs when his nomination papers were submitted to the Legislature Secretary N. Narasimha Charyulu.
