The ruling outfit in Telangana, Telangana Rashtra Samithi(TRS) that kept everyone guessing on who would get nominated under the MLAs’ quota had announced the candidates’ list for the six positions and the candidates have filed their nominations for the same on Tuesday reportedly. Surprisingly, the candidates have filed their nominations on the last day of the nomination day.
Gutha Sukhender Reddy, Padi Kaushik Reddy( former Congress leader, current TRS leader), former Siddipet Collector P Venkatrami Reddy who recently took voluntary retirement, Banda Prakash Mudiraj, Kadiyam Srihari, and Takkallapalli Ravinder Rao were nominated for the MLC positions.
The members nominated by the TRS would be elected unanimously given the fact that the ruling outfit enjoys good strength in the Telangana Legislative Assembly. Out of the 119 member strength, TRS has 103 MLAs. Congress and Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP) are the opposition parties in the state but they don’t have enough strength to nominate their candidates.
TRS had announced the list after a lot of thinking. One name that has caught everyone’s attention is Banda Prakash Mudiraj, who is serving as the Rajya Sabha member currently. He was given a chance in the MLC nominations despite not completing his tenure as a Rajya Sabha member.
The Telangana government gave second chance to candidates like Gutha Sukhender Reddy and Kadiyam Srihari in the MLC nominations that too for consecutive terms. Venkatrami Reddy who triggered the speculations of venturing into nominations by taking voluntary retirement from his services was also given a chance. His nomination as the MLC candidate is not a surprise.
Congress leader Padi Kaushik Reddy, who joined the TRS party ahead of the Huzurabad by-election in the state was supposed to be nominated under the Governor’s quota. However, he could not be nominated. The government gave him a chance and nominated him as MLC under the MLA quota.
As per the election schedule for the Legislative Council seats issued by the Election Commission, the candidates should file their nominations before the 16th of November while the nominations would be scrutinised on November 17th. The candidates can withdraw their nominations before the 22nd of this month.