hyderabad
The Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) enactment has named candidates for Khammam, Mahabubabad, Peddapalli and Karimnagar Parliamentary (Lok Sabha) seats — Nama Nageswara Rao, Maloth Kavitha, Koppula Eshwar and Boinapalli Vinod Kumar, respectively — connected Monday.
Names of the candidates were announced by enactment president and erstwhile main curate K. Chandrasekhar Rao aft a gathering with the enactment leaders from Khammam and Mahabubabad Parliamentary constituencies, astatine the Telangana Bhavan present connected Monday. He had held a akin gathering with the enactment leaders of Peddapalli and Karimnagar constituencies connected Sunday.
The enactment holds the Khammam, Mahabubabad and Peddapalli seats but B. Venkatesh Netha, the sitting MP from Peddapalli, has switched his loyalty to Congress. Similarly, BRS sitting MPs from Zaheerabad (B.B. Patil) and Nagarkurnool (P. Ramulu) deserted the enactment past week and joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). The BJP has named Mr. Patil and Mr. Ramulu’s lad P. Bharath arsenic its candidates for the 2 seats already.
With the Congress and BJP intensifying their efforts to weaken the BRS arsenic overmuch arsenic they tin by weaning distant its sitting MPs, MLAs and MLCs and different leaders up of the Lok Sabha elections, the BRS enactment has stepped up its enactment and decided to motorboat its run from Karimnagar connected March 12, and clasp meetings with the leaders of the remaining 13 Parliamentary constituencies to finalise the candidates.
BRS person T. Harish Rao holding a gathering with Khammam and Mahabubabad Lok Sabha constituencies leaders successful Hyderabad connected Monday. | Photo Credit: Arrangement
It was being speculated that Mr. Nageswara Rao and Ms. Kavitha were besides approached by the BJP leadership, which has been uncovering it hard to scout for “strong” candidates. However, the BRS enactment pre-empted immoderate specified efforts by retaining them arsenic the enactment candidates by holding a gathering with them arsenic good arsenic those of Assembly segments falling successful the 2 Parliamentary constituencies.
Mr. Chandrasekhar Rao held consultations with sitting MPs K. Keshava Rao, V. Ravichandra, Mr. Nageswara Rao and Ms. Kavitha on with BRS moving president K.T. Rama Rao, erstwhile Ministers T. Harish Rao, P. Ajay Kumar, Satyavathi Rathod, erstwhile MP A. Seetharam Naik, sitting MLCs and each erstwhile legislators of the enactment successful Khammam and Mahabubabad Parliamentary constituencies.
Mr. Harish Rao besides held abstracted meetings with Khammam and Mahabubabad candidates and enactment leaders of 2 Lok Sabha constituencies to sermon the strategy to beryllium followed for the run with a absorption connected the failures of the Congress government, peculiarly however it has failed to support its pre-poll promises.
