The two-time MLA has been in political exile for a long after he was figured in the Abdul Kareem Telgi stamp paper scam.
Published Nov 02, 2023 | 5:47 PM ⚊ Updated Nov 02, 2023 | 6:49 PM
Telangana BJP leaders with Amit Shah in Khammam. (Supplied)
The BJP released its third list of candidates for the Telangana Assembly elections on Thursday, 2 November. The party named candidates for 35 Assembly constituencies for the 30 November elections.
The party has already released the names of candidates for 53 seats in two lists. All in all, the party finalised candidates for 88 of the 119 Assembly seats.
As the nominations will open on 3 November, the BJP has hastened the process of finalising the candidates. The party’s Central Election Committee, which met on 1 November, puts its stamp of approval for 35 seats in its third list, according to an official press release.’
The third list comprised six former MLAs among whom four were former ministers. The caste-wise breakup is:
The six former MLAs were: Yendala Laskhminarayana (Banswada), Pally Babu Mohan (Andole-SC), C Krishna Yadav (Amberpet), Marri Shashidhar Reddy (Sanatnagar), J Chittaranjan Das (Jadcherla), and NVSS Prabhakar (Uppal).
The party fielded one woman Challa Saritha Reddy from Huzurnagar while SCs were finalised for five seats.
The SC candidates are: P Babu Mohan (Andole), Raja Ramachandra Narasimha (Zaheerabad), KS Ratam (Chevella), Devani Satish Madiga (Achampet), and Ramalingeswara Rao (Sattupalli)
The party fielded STs for three seats — Ajmeera Atmaram Naik (Asifabad), Kethavath Lalu Naik (Devarakonda), and Podiyam Balaraju (Pinapaka).
The Central Election Committee of the Bharatiya Janata Party has decided the names for the ensuing General Elections to the Legislative Assembly of Telangana. pic.twitter.com/gBiItOpDJC
— BJP (@BJP4India) November 2, 2023
The name that came as a surprise was that of C Krishna Yadav, who has been in political exile for a long time after he figured in the Abdul Kareem Telgi stamp paper scam.
He was a two-time MLA from Himayatnagar constituency in Hyderabad and served as labour minister from 1994 to 1999 in Chandrababu Naidu’s Cabinet in the erstwhile united Andhra Pradesh. He is a prominent BC leader who joined the BJP recently.
Former BJP state vice president Yendala Laxminarayana is a prominent leader from North Telangana.
Actor P Babu Mohan who would test his luck at Andole is a senior politician and is well known in the constituency as he was elected to the Assembly from the same constituency three times in the erstwhile Medak district. He served as a minister for labour in Chandrababu Naidu’s Cabinet from 2002 to 2004.
In 2014, he parted ways with the TDP and joined the TRS (now BRS), and in 2018, he joined the BJP.
NVSS Prabhakar, who is being fielded from Uppal, won from there in 2014. When he was MLA, he was deputy floor leader of BJP. In 2018, he lost to Bethi Subhas Reddy of BRS.
Former minister Marri Shashidhar Reddy, was a four-time MLA from Sanatnagar for the Congress. He left the grand old party following differences with the TPCC president and the BJP is now fielding him from his home constituency.
He is the son of the former chief minister of erstwhile united Andhra Pradesh late M Channa Reddy. He was a member of the National Disaster Management Authority and the convener of the National Level Task Force on Naxal Violence.
J Chittaranjan Das, created ripples in the 1989 Assembly elections in the erstwhile Andhra Pradesh state when he defeated TDP founder NT Rama Rao (NTR), who was considered invincible in Kalwakurthy. He joined the BRS in 2019.
He left the BRS and joined the BJP in September this year. He had also served as a minister in the Congress government in the undivided Andhra Pradesh.
The BJP is fielding Ashwathama Reddy from Wanaparthy. He was the convener of the Joint Action Council of employees unions which led the 2019 TSRTC employees’ 48-day-old strike to a disaster. After the strike failed, he went into political oblivion. The demand of the employees was the merger of the corporation in the government.
