Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) President K Chandrasekhar Rao on Monday announced the names of four candidates in the party's first list for the upcoming parliamentary elections. B Vinod Kumar has been fielded from Karimnagar, Koppula Eshwar from Peddapalli, Nama Nageshwar Rao from Khammam, and Maloth Kavitha from Mahbubabad.
Telangana has 17 Lok Sabha seats. In the last elections, the BRS (then TRS) had won 9 seats, followed by the BJP 4, and Congress 3. AIMIM led by Asaduddin Owaisi got 1 seat.
So far, only BRS and BJP have announced candidates for the general elections.
The BJP has so far announced the names of nine candidates for Telangana.
Karimnagar: Bandi Sanjay KumarNizamabad: Dharmapuri ArvindZahirabad: BB PatilMalkajgiri: Etela RajenderSecunderabad: G. Kishan ReddyHyderabad: Kompella Madhavi LathaChevella: Konda Vishweshwar ReddyNagarkurnool (SC): Pothuganti Bharath PrasadBhongir: Boora Narsaiah Goud