BJP Releases First List Of 52 Candidates

The central election committee of the Bharatiya Janata Party, which met on Friday under the chairmanship of its national president J P Nadda, released its first list of the candidates for the upcoming Assembly elections in Telangana.

The meeting was attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, union ministers Rajnath Singh and Amit Shah, and all other members of the committee.

The list contains 52 names. MPs Bandi Sanjay Kumar, D Aravind and Soyam Babu Rao also figure in the list - they will be contesting from the Karimnagar, Korutla and Boath Assembly constituencies. And the party's joining committee chairman and former minister Etala Rajender will contest from the Gajwel and Huzurabad constituencies.

The following are the names of the candidates:

Adilabad: Payal Shankar
Armur: Paidi Rakesh Reddy
Bahadurpura: Y Naresh Kumar
Balkonda: Annapurnamma Aleti
Bellampalli (SC): Amarajula Sridevi
Bhadrachalam (ST): Kunja Dharma Rao
Bhongir: Gudur Narayana Reddy
Bhupalpalle: Chandupatla Keerthi Reddy
Boath (ST): Soyam Bapu Rao (MP)
Chandrayangutta: Satyanarayana Mudiraj
Charminar: Megha Rani
Choppadandi (SC): Bodiga Shobha
Dharmapuri (SC): S Kumar
Dornakal (ST): Bhukya Sangeetha
Dubbak: Madavaneni Raghunandan Rao
Gajwel: Etala Rajender
Ghanpur Station (SC): Dr Gunde Vijaya Ramarao
Goshamahal: T Raja Singh
Huzurabad: Etala Rajender
Ibrahimpatnam: Nomula Dayanand Goud
Jagtial: Dr Boga Sravani
Jangaon: Dr Arutla Dashmanth Reddy
Jukkal (SC): T Aruna Tara
Kalwakurthy: Thalloju Achary
Kamareddy: K Venkata Ramana Reddy
Karimnagar: Bandi Sanjay Kumar (MP)
Karwan: Amar Singh
Khairatabad: Chinthala Ramachandra Reddy
Khanapur (ST): Ramesh Rathod
Kollapur: Aelleni Sudhakar Rao
Koratla: Dharmapuri Arvind (MP)
Mahabubabad (ST): Jathoth Hussain Naik
Maheshwaram: Andela Ramulu Yadav
Manakondur (SC): Arepalli Mohan
Mudhole: Ramarao Patel
Nagarjuna Sagar: Kankanala Niveditha Reddy
Narsapur: Erragolla Murali Yadav
Nirmal: Aleti Maheshwar Reddy
Nizamabad Urban: Dhanpal Suryanaryana Gupta
Palakurthi: Lega Ramohan Reddy
Patancheru: T Nandhishwar Goud
Quthbullapur: Kuna Srisailam Goud
Ramagundam: Kandula Sandhya Rani
Sircilla: Rani Rudrama Reddy
Sirpur: Dr Palvai Harish Babu
Suryapet: Sankineni Venkateshwar Rao
Thungathurthy (SC): Kadiyam Ramchandraiah
Warangal East: Errabelli Pradeep Rao
Warangal West: Rao Padma
Wardhannapet (SC): Kondeti Sridhar
Yakutpura: Veerender Yadav
Yellandu (ST): Ravindra Naik