Senior Congress leader V Hanumantha Rao today urged the party high command to consider his name for the Rajya Sabha.
Speaking at a press conference at Gandhi Bhavan, Rao said that he would be very happy if he was nominated by the party for the Rajya Sabha seat which was vacated by K Keshava Rao after the latter recently joined the Congress.
Expressing regret over the "injustice" done to him by his not being given a ticket for the Lok Sabha elections, the Congress leader said that he would have won as Secunderabad MP if the party had given the ticket to him.
"The party high command should give an opportunity to me because I did not have a single post in the last eight years," Rao said.
Rao also thanked Chief Minister Revanth Reddy for announcing a residential plot and a government job for cricketer Mohammed Siraj, who was a member of T20 World Cup winning team.
"I recognised the talent of Siraj in the early days of his career, and had even felicitated him once. There is a great craze for cricket in India, but there is no cricket stadium in Telangana except in Hyderabad. In contrast, there are 12 cricket stadiums in Andhra Pradesh. I request the Chief Minister to allocate adequate land for the construction of stadiums in each district of Telangana and to promote sports in a big way. As the Chief Minister is also a young person, he should encourage the youth in the field of sports," Rao said.