The Congress party on Sunday released the first list of 55 candidates for the upcoming Telangana Assembly polls. Telangana Congress president Revanth Reddy to contest from Kodangal. The announcement comes after the leadership of the party engaged in deliberations on Friday regarding potential candidates for the upcoming Madhya Pradesh and Telangana assembly elections. The Central Election Committee (CEC) of the Congress held distinct meetings to strategise for the assembly polls in Madhya Pradesh and Telangana, scheduled for November 17 and 30, respectively.
Apart from Telangana, the party has also declared candidates for 30 seats in Chhattisgarh and 144 candidates for Madhya Pradesh elections.
The southern state will vote on November 30 and the counting will be done on December 3, along with the other four states - Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, and Mizoram.
Telangana is primarily heading towards a tri-corner battler with ruling BRS eyeing another term, and Congress seeking to wrest CM K Chandrashekhar Rao. The BJP is aiming to form the government in a bid to hold some grip on the southern part of the country ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha Elections.
ABP and CVoter had reached out to the voters to assess the mood who are preparing to exercise their franchise in Telangana.
According to the CVoter opinion poll, it is a tough contest between Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao-led Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) and the Congress. The BRS can secure 43 to 55 seats, while the Congress is expected to win 48 to 60 seats. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), despite Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah leading its campaign, is projected to win only 5 to 11 seats.
In the elections held in 2018, BRS (then TRS- Telangana Rashtra Samiti) won 88 seats out of 119 and emerged as the single-largest party while Congress was a distant second with 19. BJP, which contested on 117 constituencies, won only one.
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