Congress 3rd list: Danam Nagender, Ranjith Reddy given ticket from Telangana

Hyderabad: Five candidates from Telangana are in the list of 57 Lok Sabha candidates declared by the Indian National Congress on Thursday evening.

Telangana nominations are:

Peaddapalle – Gaddam Vamsi Krishna

Malkajgiri – Sunitha Mahender Reddy

Secunderabad – Danam Nagender

Nagarkurnool – Dr Mallu Ravi

Chevella – Dr Gaddam Ranjith Reddy

Two nominee’s are those who left BRS

The nomination of Danam Nagender from Secunderabad and Dr G Ranjith Reddy from Chevella are of those candidates who left the Bharat Rashtra Samithi from Telangana recently.

Danam Nagender was elected as a member of the Legislative Assembly from Khairtabad when he was with Bharat Rashtra Samithi. He recently switched over to the Indian National Congress.

BRS leaders have complained about him to the Telangana speaker urging to disqualify him after he switched sides.

Dr G Ranjith Reddy is a member of the 17th Lok Sabha. He contested elections from the BRS party but recently switched over to Congress party. He will contest elections from Chevella.

Malkajgiri a seat to watch out for

In the 17th Lok Sabha, Malkajgiri was contested by the present chief minister of Telangana Revanth Reddy. The seat is being seen as a ‘prestige contest’ in Telangana. Congress party has nominated a women candidate Sunitha Mahender Reddy.

57 names released

Congress part in their 3rd list has released 57 names. Candidates are from Arunachal Pradesh, Gujarat, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Telangana, West Bengal and Puducherry.