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BJP to shortlist candidates today

By Our Special Correspondent

HYDERABAD, MARCH 22. The BJP State election committee will meet here on Tuesday to shortlist and recommend to the Parliamentary Board the aspirants for 27 Assembly and the remaining four Lok Sabha constituencies to be contested by it under the seat-sharing arrangement with the TDP.

The entire list of nominees is expected to be cleared by the board tomorrow.

Of the 12 seats won by the party in the dissolved Assembly, it is likely to re-nominate nine candidates. The State BJP president, N. Indrasena Reddy, who represented the Malakpet seat in the city, will be moving to the Nalgonda constituency. It would be fielding a new candidate from Alampur in Mahbubnagar, which was won by R.Ravindranath Reddy, who joined the TRS.

The sources said the former Assembly Speaker, P. Ramachandra Reddy, was being considered for the Medak seat. The names of film actress Nagma, and the former city unit president, C. Ramachandra Reddy, were doing the rounds for the Hyderabad seat.

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