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Candidates await auspicious time

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HYDERABAD: Congress candidates are awaiting an auspicious day and time to file their nominations in the fond hope of performing well in the by-elections.

A majority of them are planning to file their papers on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday amid fanfare. Party leaders are gearing up for a show of strength after the filing of nominations. They want to ensure that district Ministers and, if possible, APCC president D. Srinivas are present in these programmes.

No muhurtham

A few others, who profess other faiths, are not very keen on any particular muhurtham. The Station Ghanpur nominee Dr. M. Rajaiah, a Christian plans to file his nomination on May 10.

With Akshaya Tritiya celebrations on for the next few days, candidates want to utilise these days to file their nominations.

Most of them plan to visit to temples and seek the blessings of the presiding deities before proceeding to file their papers.

Karimnagar LS candidate, T. Jeevan Reddy, will visit the Sri Anjaneya Swamy temple at Kondagattu near Jagtial before filing his papers on May 9 at Karimnagar. Konda Surekha (Hanamkonda) and Rameswar Reddy (Warangal) are expected to offer prayers at the Bhadrakali temple in Warangal and file their papers on May 8.

The APCC president will visit Warangal on Thursday to join a rally planned by the Congress cadres to mark the filing of nomination by Ms. Surekha and Mr. Rameswar Reddy.

The Khairatabad candidate P. Vishnuvardhan Reddy will offer prayers at the Peddamma temple in Jubilee Hills and later proceed to the temple erected in memory of his father in the Hyderabad. He would file his papers on Wednesday.

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