With only five nominations received for five seats, all of them set to be elected unopposed not needing an election on March 20

metro india news  I hyderabad

The Congress, CPI and BRS candidates have filed their nominations for elections to the Telangana Legislative Council under MLA quota on Monday. Congress (Addanki Dayakar, Shankar Naik and Vijayashanti), Nellikanti Satyam (CPI) and Dasoju Sravan (BRS) submitted their nominations. With only five candidates entering the fray, the candidates are expected to be elected unopposed without a need for election. However, the official announcement will be made on March 13, the date set for withdrawal of nominations.

Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy, Deputy CM Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka, TPCC President Mahesh Kumar Goud and other senior leaders of Congress and CPI were present when the respective candidates from these parties submitted their nominations.

The election comes as the tenure of five MLCs—Mahmood Ali, Satyavathi Rathod, Seri Subhash Reddy, Yegge Mallesham, and Mirza Riyazul Hassan—ends on March 29. Notably, BRS held four out of these five seats, but Yegge Mallesham defected to Congress in June last year.Mirza Riyazul Hassan represented AIMIM.

Congress allotted one seat to its ally CPI, as part of its electoral alliance. Nellikanti Satyam is the CPI candidate.

In the 119-member Telangana Legislative Assembly, the Congress has a strength of 65, while the main opposition BRS 38, though 10 of its MLAs have shifted loyalties to Congress. The Congress and BRS are expected to win four and one seats, respectively, based on their strength in the Assembly. The BRS named Sravan Dasoju as its candidate in the MLC election.