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Hyderabad, October 21 (IANS) Union Ministers Nirmala Sitharaman, Arjun Ram Meghwal, G. Kishan Reddy, prisoner Sanjay Kumar, B. Srinivas Verma and Rajasthan Chief Minister Bhajan Lal Sharma are among the 40 star campaigners announced by the BJP for the Jubilee Hills Assembly bypoll in Telangana.
BJP youth leader K. Annamalai, Tejaswi Surya and party MPs DK Aruna and D. Purandeswari are among the prominent leaders who will campaign for the saffron party’s candidate for the by-election to be held on November 11.
The central leadership of the party has announced its candidate L. The list of star campaigners was announced hours after Deepak Reddy filed his nomination.
BJP’s OBC Mora President and MP Dr. K. Laxman, party national general secretary and Telangana in-charge Sunil Bansal, state party president N. Ramachander Rao, MPs Eatala Rajender, Dharampuri Aravind, Konda Visvesvara Reddy, M. Raghunandan Rao and Godem Nagesh, Andhra Pradesh Health Minister Satya Kumar, Andhra Pradesh unit president of the party P.N.V. Madhav is the party’s other major star campaigner.
Meanwhile, Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) has also announced the list of 40 star campaigners for the by-election.
BRS president and former Chief Minister K.Chandrasekhar Rao (KCR), BRS working president KT Rama Rao and senior leader and former minister T.Harish Rao are among the star campaigners.
Former ministers Srinivas Yadav, Padmarao Goud, Mahmood Ali, Prashant Reddy, E. Dayakar Rao, Srinivas Goud, Niranjan Reddy, Jagadish Reddy, Gangula Kamalakar and Sabitha Indra Reddy are the other prominent leaders who will campaign for the party.
The by-election has become necessary due to the death of Maganti Gopinath, who was elected on BRS ticket in 2023. The party has fielded his wife Maganti Sunita.
The ruling Congress party has made Naveen Yadav its candidate.
BJP’s Deepak Reddy filed nomination on the last day on Tuesday. He unsuccessfully contested the elections from Jubilee Hills in 2023.
BRS’s Gopinath had won the seat for the third consecutive time by defeating former Indian cricket captain and Congress candidate Mohammad Azharuddin by 16,337 votes.
In the multi-cornered contest, Gopinath got 80,549 votes, while Azharuddin got 64,212 votes. Deepak Reddy stood third with 25,866 votes.
–IANS
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