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Congress `finalises' list for 19 Council seats

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Names finalised on Sunday after two days of hectic consultations

HYDERABAD: The Congress has almost finalised the party nominees for 19 Legislative Council seats under the MLAs quota that it intends to contest while leaving two to the CPI and one to the MIM.

After a series of meetings that Chief Minister Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy and the APCC president K. Keshava Rao had with the AICC general secretary Digvijay Singh and party chief Sonia Gandhi during the last two days, the list was reportedly prepared on Sunday.

The official list is expected to be announced on Monday night or Tuesday morning. Party sources said that the names of candidates from Andhra and Rayalaseema regions were finalised while the leaders were mulling over nominees from Telangana. Caste equations and aspirants' service to the party seemed to have played a major role in the selection.

Names of following candidates were reported to have been cleared: Majji Sarada (Srikakulam), Nagesh (Visakhapatnam), K. Durgesh and Rudraraju Padmaraju (both East Godavari), Kanumuri Bapiraju (West Godavari), Paladugu Venkat Rao (Krishna), Md. Jani (Guntur), Anjaiah (Prakasam), Gopinath (Chittoor), Chengalrayudu (Kadapa) and A. Chakrapani (Kurnool).

Party leaders maintained that four out of the five former MLAs from Telangana, who were denied ticket due to poll alliance with other parties in the 2004 elections, could be accommodated. The names doing the rounds are Palvai Goverdhan Reddy, Repala Srinivas and Bharati Ragya Naik (all Nalgonda), Vittal Reddy (Medak) and Rajalingam (Warangal).

Others likely to be considered are senior Congress leader Sultan Ahmed from Adilabad and former Union Minister Kamala Kumari (Khammam).

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