TRS supremo and Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao today announced the names of the MLC candidates of the party.
The candidates are former Telangana Legislative Council Chairman Gutha Sukhender Reddy, former MLC Kadiyam Srihari, Thakkellapalli Ravinder Rao, former IAS officer P Venkatrami Reddy, P Kaushik Reddy, and Banda Prakash who is an MP of the Rajya Sabha.
Sukhender Reddy and Kadiyam Srihari were retained by the Chief Minister for MLC posts. The remaining four are new persons, with former Collector of Siddipet Venkatrami Reddy who joined the party fold yesterday being a notable inclusion.
The candidates filed their nominations at the Assembly. Ministers K T Rama Rao, Harish Rao and others attended the program.
The candidates had earlier met the Chief Minister at Telangana Bhavan, and extended thanks to the party boss for offering them the chance to be MLCs. The Chief Minister congratulated them.
The polling will be held from 9 am to 4 pm on November 29, the counting of votes will be from 5 pm onwards that day, and the results will be announced immediately.
The TRS has 110 MLA seats including seven seats of its ally AIMIM, and will easily win the six seats.