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11 file papers for A.P. Council polls

Eight Congress, three TDP candidates will be elected unopposed

HYDERABAD: Eleven candidates, including Andhra Pradesh Finance Minister K. Rosaiah of Congress, filed their nomination papers for the Legislative Council elections from the Assembly constituency on Tuesday.

Of the 11, eight were from the Congress and three from the Telugu Desam Party. They submitted their nomination papers to the Legislature Secretary, Raja Sadaram.

All the 11 are likely to be elected unopposed as the number of vacancies are also the same. Surprisingly, the Congress did not field another candidate though the ruling party and its allies have almost sufficient strength in the Assembly to ensure the victory of nine candidates. This enabled the TDP to field three candidates and win all.

Apart from Mr. Rosaiah, the other Congress nominees are: Rudraraju Padmaraju, Peer Shabbir Ahmed, N. Rajalingam, K. Yadava Reddy, K. R. Amos, G. Thippeswamy and Singam Basavapunnaiah.

Except Mr. Rosaiah, the other Congress nominees are sitting MLCs and they got re-nominated as their two-year term comes to an end on March 29. The candidates were accompanied by the State Congress Committee president, D. Srinivas, and all of them submitted their papers around noon.

The three Telugu Desam nominees — Nannapaneni Rajakumari, B. Venkateswarlu and B. Lakshminarayana Goud — filed their papers a few minutes before the deadline at 3 p.m. They were accompanied by TDP leaders and significantly, CPI (M) and CPI MLAs led by their floor leaders, N. Narsimhaiah and Chada Venkat Reddy.

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