BJP Releases 1st List Of Candidates For Telangana Polls, 3 Sitting MPs Get Tickets

The BJP on Sunday released the first list of 52 candidates for the Telangana Assembly elections 2023.

The saffron party has given tickets to three Lok Sabha MPS including its former Telangana president Bandi Sanjay Kumar. The BJP has also given ticket to its firebrand Hindutva leader T Raja Singh from his Goshamahal seat after revoking his suspension, effected last year for alleged insulting remarks towards Prophet Mohammad.

Its election committee head Etela Rajender has been fielded from Huzurabad, a seat the former BRS leader represents in the outgoing assembly. Kumar has been fielded from Karimnagar and two other MPs, Soyam Bapu Rao and Dharmapuri Arvind, from Boath and Koratla.

The BJP has four Lok Sabha MPs from the state. Union minister and its state president G Kishan Reddy is another MP whose name is not in the first list. The BJP is trying hard to emerge as the main challenger to the ruling BRS with the Congress also putting up a strong fight.