TRS fields candidate against friendly Asaduddin Owaisi

Naveen S Garewal
Tribune News Service
Hyderabad, March 22

The Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) has released a list of 17 names for the April 11 Lok Sabha elections, putting up a candidate on all seats including Hyderabad that the party has so far been projecting as one to be left for friendly party All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) chief Asaduddin Owaisi

The list was released by Chief Minister and party president K Chandrashekhar Rao on Thursday evening re-nominating seven sitting MPs and granting ticket to six totally new faces.

The list suggests a blend of fresh faces and experienced hands. Those re-nominated include the CM’s daughter K Kavitha who will contest from Nizamabad, the seat that she currently represents.

Important leaders who have been dropped include the TRS floor leader in the outgoing Lok Sabha A P Jithender Reddy (Mahabubnagar).

Others dropped from the list include Ponguleti Srinivas Reddy (Khammam), who has been replaced by the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) polit bureau member Nama Nageshwar Rao, who recently joined the TRS.

New faces in the list are businessman Vemireddy Narasimha Reddy (Nalgonda), Gaddam Ranjit Reddy (Chevella), Talasani Sai Kiran Yadav (Secunderabad), Marri Rajshekhar Reddy (Malkajigiri) and Puste Srikant (Hyderabad).

The sitting MPs who have been given TRS tickets again are K Kavitha (Nizamabad), Boinpally Vinod Kumar (Karimnagar), Godem Nagesh (Adilabad), BB Patil (Zaheerabad), Kotha Prabhakar Reddy (Medak), Pasunuri Dayakar (Warangal) and Boora Narasaiah Goud (Bhongir).

Borlakunta Venkatesh Nethakani who joined TRS from Congress recently is also in the list. He had contested against Balka Suman from Chennur assembly constituency and lost in the recent assembly elections.

Besides the CM’s daughter Kavitha, the TRS has given ticket to Maloth Kavitha from Mahbubabad constituency. She is the daughter of TRS MLA Redya Naik and second woman in the TRS list.

Karimnagar – Boinpally Vinod Kumar

Peddapalli – Borlakunta Venkatesh Nethakani

Adilabad – Godem Nagesh

Nizamabad – Kalvakuntla Kavitha

Zaheerabad – BB Patil

Medak – Kotha Prabhakar Reddy

Warangal – Pasunuri dayakar

Mahabubabad – Maloth Kavitha

Khammam – Nama Nageshwar Rao

Bhongir – Boora Narsaiah Goud

Nalgonda – Vemireddy Narasimha Reddy

Nagarkurnool – Pothuganti Ramulu

Mahbubnagar – Manne Srinivas Reddy

Chevella – Gaddam Ranjit Reddy

Secunderabad – Talasani Sai Kiran Yadav

Malkajgiri – Marri Rajshekhar Reddy

Hyderabad – Puste Srikant