Telangana Congress accepts applications for Assembly polls from today

Hyderabad: The Telangana Congress will start accepting applications from candidates planning to contest the state Assembly elections, which will be held towards the end of the year, beginning Friday, a senior party leader said.

Following in the footsteps of the Karnataka Congress model, the Telangana unit will charge Rs 25,000 as an "applying" fee for the aspiring



candidates of SC, ST, and the physically challenged categories and Rs 50,000 for the rest.

The Karnataka unit of the party charged Rs 2 lakh, along with applications and other documents, from the aspiring candidates of the general category while it was Rs 1 lakh for SC/ST applicants in the Assembly polls held earlier in May.