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Hyderabad, October 10 (IANS) The process of finalizing the BJP candidate for the upcoming by-election on Jubilee Hills assembly seat reached the final stage on Friday.
The election committee of BJP’s Telangana unit met on Friday to finalize the three names. The list will be sent to the central leadership of the party, which will announce the candidate.
State BJP President N. In the meeting chaired by Ramchander Rao, Union Coal and Mines Minister G. Kishan Reddy, MP K. Laxman and party state general secretary Chandrashekhar Tiwari participated.
Ramachander Rao presented the report of the three-member committee, in which five names were shortlisted.
The election committee will select three names in priority order and send them to the party high command.
M. Dharma Rao, member of the three-member committee, said that the BJP candidate will be announced in a day or two.
The panel constituted by the state BJP chief consulted 44 leaders from mandal level and above and sent six shortlisted names to the state leadership. The list was presented before the election committee on Friday.
The names of Lankala Deepak Reddy, who was the party’s candidate from the same constituency in the 2023 elections, Juthuru Keerthi Reddy and Veerapaneni Padma are likely to be sent to the high command.
Backward class leaders Akula Padma and Ataluri Ramakrishna were included in the list prepared by a three-member committee.
The ruling Congress party and Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) have already announced their candidates for the by-elections to be held on November 11.
While the Congress party has fielded Naveen Yadav as its candidate, the BRS had decided to field Maganti Sunita, wife of Maganti Gopinath, whose death necessitated the bypoll.
In the 2023 elections, BRS’s Gopinath scored a hat-trick 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.
BJP’s L Deepak Reddy stood third with 25,866 votes. All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM), headed by Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi, had also fielded its candidate, but he finished fourth with just 7,848 votes.
According to the schedule announced by the Election Commission of India on Monday, the official notification for the by-election will be issued on October 13, while the last date for filing nominations is October 21. Scrutiny of nominations will take place on 22 October, and withdrawal of candidature will be allowed till 24 October.
Counting of votes will take place on 14 November and the election process will be completed by 16 November 2025.
–IANS
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