In Telangana, 6 candidates of Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) have been unanimously elected to the Legislative Council from local authorities’ constituencies. State Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao’s daughter K. Kavitha is among the unanimously elected candidates.
Elections for the remaining six seats of the Council will be held on 10th of next month. Local bodies’ representatives are eligible to cast their votes in these constituencies. Counting of votes will be taken up on 14th of December.
Six candidates of TRS received certificates of election from respective returning officers yesterday. They were declared elected as all the candidates who
had filed nominations against them withdrew from the contest as yesterday being the last day for withdrawal of nominations.
Kavitha was elected from Nizamabad constituency. The others who were elected to the upper house of the state legislature are P Mahender Reddy and S. Raju from Rangareddy district, P Srinivas Reddy from Warangal, K Narayana Reddy, and K Damodar Reddy from Mahabubnagar district. Kavitha has been re-elected for a second term from Nizamabad.
Meanwhile, elections have become inevitable in six other constituencies in Adilabad, Nalgonda, Medak, Khammam, for two MLC seats in Karimnagar district.