Telangana Assembly Polls: Congress' Second List Out; Azharuddin To Contest From Jubilee Hills

The Congress on Friday announced its second list of 45 candidates for the upcoming Telangana polls, which are scheduled to be held in a single phase on November 30.

Prominent leaders in the party include Tummala Nageshwar Rao, who will be contesting from the Khammam assembly constituency, and Ponguleti Srinivas Reddy, who has been fielded in the Palair assembly constituency.

Former MP MD Azharuddin has secured a ticket to run for election in Jubilee Hills, while Vijaya Reddy, the daughter of the late P Janardhan Reddy, will be the party's candidate in the Khairatabad constituency. Ponnam Prabhakar has been nominated to contest from Husnabad.

Azharuddin has been an MP from Uttar Pradesh's Moradabad.

With this, the party has so far declared a total of 100 candidates. The state has 119 assembly constituencies.

Weeks before the Telangana assembly polls, Raj Gopal Reddy returned to the Congress fold earlier in the day, more than a year after quitting the grand old party to join the BJP.

In the earlier list, the party fielded Pradesh Congress chief Anumala Revanth Reddy from Kodangal assembly seat while CLP leader Bhatti Vikramarka Mallu has been fielded from Madhira-SC seat.

Revanth Reddy is currently the sitting Lok Sabha MP from Malkajgiri parliamentary constituency.