BRS announces two more candidates for LS polls, fields ex IAS, IPS officers

With this, former chief minister K Chandrashekar Rao-led party has announced candidates for 13 Lok Sabha seats out of the total 17 in Telangana.

Praveen Kumar unsuccessfully contested the assembly polls in November last year when he was heading the state unit of the Mayawati-led party.

Venkatram Reddy is currently an MLC.

On 13 March, the pink party announced its list of four candidates.

The party announced the candidature of Dr Kadiyam Kavya from Warangal, Kasani Ganeshwar Mudiraj from Chevella, Gali Anil Kumar from Zaheerabad, and Bajireddy Govardhan from Nizamabad.

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BRS campaign

On 12 March, KCR March, kick-started his party’s campaigning for the Lok Sabha elections in the state with an impassioned plea to the people not to be led astray like in Assembly elections, but to vote for BRS candidates.

He was addressing a well-attended public meeting labelled “Kadana Bheri” at Karimnagar, which was once the ground zero for the Telangana movement.

KCR said on the occasion that he did not mind the minor bump he had faced — referring to the Assembly election loss — but was ready to fight for people’s interests.

“Had you elected the BRS in the last Assembly elections, I would have by ignited fires across the entire nation,” he said while describing how myopic the BJP at the Centre was in not being able to take full advantage of the natural resources available for the benefit of the people at large.

He, however, said he had taken this minor setback into his stride and was ready to take a deep dive once again into public life.