The Telugu Desam Party has officially announced its first list of nine candidates for Telangana December elections. Senior leader Nama Nageswara Rao will contest from Khammam assembly constituency where Nama will take on Puvvada Ajay Kumar of Telangana Rashtra Samithi. Both nominees belong to the Kamma community dominant in the segment there.
The remaining 8 contestants of TDP are Sandra Venkata Veeraiah (SC) from Sathupalli segment, Machcha Nageswara Rao (ST) from Aswaraopeta, Erra Sekhar from Mahabubnagar, Kothakota Dayakar Reddy from Maktal, Bhavya Ananda Prasad from Serilingampally, Veerender Goud from Uppal, Mujaffar from Malakpet and Revuri Prakash Reddy from Warangal West constituency.
The first list was announced late night by TDP Telangana president L. Ramana. In Serilingampalli, where settlers are more in number in Hyderabad city limits, TDP fielded Ananda Prasad to face Arikepudi Gandhi of TRS.
The TDP has not announced the name of Peddireddy in the first list. Former minister Peddireddy has been pinning lot of hopes on Kukatpally assembly segment which is also another high profile segment with Andhra settlers playing a key role in deciding winning changes of contestants. Omission of Peddireddy’s name became a topic of discussion both within TDP and in rival parties.
The candidates for remaining five segments will be announced in a day or two. TDP has got 14 segments in seat sharing with Congress under Mahakutami alliance.
