Lok Satta Releases Second List Of Candidates

Even as it maintained that its doors were still open for electoral adjustments with the TDP and the BJP, the Loksatta Party this evening released its second list of candidates for 29 Assembly and 3 Lok Sabha seats in Telangana.

In the first list, the party had named candidates for 14 Assembly seats and 1 Lok Sabha seat in Telangana.

Releasing the second list at a media conference, Loksatta Party State President Katari Srinivasa Rao said the party had been forced to announce its candidates as the time for filing nominations in Telangana was running out.

The party will release its 3rd list either tonight or tomorrow. The list will include Assembly seats like Kukatpally and Qutbullapur for which there are a number of aspirants.

Srinivasa Rao said that the party had so far not received an appropriate response to its proposals for electoral adjustments. The party would like to enter into adjustments based on its past electoral performance and the growing support to the party from first-time voters, he said.

In case electoral adjustments materialized even at the last hour, some of the party's candidates would withdraw from the field, abiding by party discipline, he added.

In any case, Rao said, elections provide a great opportunity for the party to take its agenda to people, whether there were electoral adjustments or not.

With today's announcement, the Loksatta Party is fielding candidates in 4 Lok Sabha and 43 Assembly seats in Telangana.

It is planning to field candidates in 13 Lok Sabha and 75 Assembly seats in residuary Andhra Pradesh, according to a decision taken by the party coordination committee which met in Guntur today. The list will be released later.

Loksatta Party leaders Bandaru Ramamohan Rao, V. Vijayender Reddy, Nandipet Ravinder, Dr. P. R. Rao and Mrs. K. Gita Murthy took part in the media conference.

The following are the candidates named by the party today for the Assembly seats:

Uppal - Bandaru Rammohan Rao
Secunderabad Cantonment - Dasari Ratnam
Amberpet - Jagan Mohan Metla
Maheshwaram - Devi Prasad S
Kamareddy - Padma Chandra Sekhar
Jukkal - A. K. Lata
Balkonda - Badri Ananath
Nizamabad Urban - Dodla Sekhar
Patancheru - Sudhir Reddy
Sanga Reddy - Madhav Reddy
Mahabubnagar - Gouse Moinuddin
Shadnagar - Dr. Narendra
Miryalaguda - Srinivas Reddy
Kodad - Govind Rao
Tungaturthy - Srinivas Rao
Huzur Nagar - Krishna Naik Bukya
Warangal West - Chandrasekhar
Warangal East - Jagdeseshwar Rao
Vardhannapet - Jatti Ravi
Mahabubabad - Moolchand
Siricilla - Samvardhani
Ramagundam - Dr. G. Maheshwar
Korutla - V Bhumanandam
Karimnagar - Vamshi Krishna
Bellampalli - Rammohan Rao
Chennur - Mekala Saroja
Ibrahimpatanam - Malla Reddy
Caravan - Saibaba
Malakpet - A Hanumantha Rao

The candidates for Lok Sabha seats are:

Secunderabad - Rohit Kumar Parasa
Mahabubabad - Ravinder Naik
Chevella - Enugu Rama Rao

(INN)