The 11 candidates filed papers to the Legislative Council of Andhra Pradesh. They filed their nomination papers for the Legislative Council elections from the Assembly constituency on Tuesday. Of the 11, eight were from the Congress including cabinet Minister K. Rosaiah, and three from the Telugu Desam Party filed their nomination papers for the Legislative Council elections from the Assembly constituency to the Legislature Secretary Raja Sadaram on Tuesday.
All the 11 are likely to be elected unopposed as the number of vacancies are also the same. Surprisingly, the Congress did not field another candidate though the ruling party and its allies have almost sufficient strength in the Assembly to ensure the victory of nine candidates. This enabled the TDP to field three candidates and wins all.
The other Congress nominees are k. Rosaiah, Rudraraju Padmaraju, Peer Shabbir Ahmed, N. Rajalingam, K. Yadava Reddy, K. R. Amos, G. Thippeswamy and Singam Basavapunnaiah.
On the other hand, the three Telugu Desam nominees, Nannapaneni Rajakumari, B. Venkateswarlu and B. Lakshminarayana Goud, filed their papers a few minutes before the deadline at 3 p.m. They were accompanied by TDP leaders and significantly, CPI (M) and CPI MLAs led by their floor leaders N. Narsimhaiah and Chada Venkat Reddy respectively. The Left party legislators also signed on the papers of the TDP candidates. With no contest expected, the fourth of the ‘grand alliance’ partners, TRS stayed away.
The Legislature Secretary told reporters that the nominations would be scrutinised on Wednesday and the results could be announced after the last day of withdrawals on January 30.
Venkateshwarlu Bulemoni
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