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Telangana Assembly Elections 2023: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Sunday released its first list of 52 candidates for the 119-member Telangana legislative assembly elections 2023. The BJP has followed the strategy similar to Hindi-heartland states and fielded two MPs and a national general secretary.
The saffron party has named MP Soyam Bapu Rao as its candidate from Boath and MP Arvind Dharmapuri from Koratla. Bandi Sanjay Kumar, BJP’s national general secretary, has been fielded from Karimnagar.
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Firebrand BJP leader and MLA T Raja Singh, whose suspension was revoked earlier today, has been awarded with a ticket from Goshamahal. Singh was suspended from the party following his remarks against Prophet Muhammad.
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The Central Election Committee of the Bharatiya Janata Party has decided the following names for the ensuing General Elections to the Legislative Assembly of Telangana. pic.twitter.com/dnadYpuiYa
— BJP (@BJP4India) October 22, 2023
Elections to the 119-member Telangana legislative assembly are scheduled to take place on November 30 and votes will be counted on December 3. The election is likely to be a three way contest with the Congress, the ruling Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS), and the BJP as the major contenders.
In the previous Assembly elections in 2018, the BRS won 88 of the 119 seats, hogging 47.4 per cent of the total vote share. The Congress finished a distant second with 19 seats and a vote share of 28.7 per cent.
Polls will be held in Mizoram on November 7, Chhattisgarh on November 7 and November 17, Madhya Pradesh on November 17, Rajasthan on November 25 and Telangana on November 30.
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