It’s official, BRS fields R.S. Praveen Kumar from Nagarkurnool
The Hindu
BRS announces two more Lok Sabha candidates, including former IPS and IAS officers, amid party defections to other parties.
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As expected, the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) has fielded former IPS officer R.S. Praveen Kumar from Nagarkurnool Lok Sabha Constituency after he joined the party. He joined BRS after quitting Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), of which he was the State president, over the alleged pressure tactics from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leadership on BSP to end the Lok Sabha poll alliance with BRS.
The party leadership has named former IAS officer and MLC P. Venkatarami Reddy as its candidate for Medak Parliamentary Constituency on Friday. With this, the BRS has named 13 candidates for the Lok Sabha elections so far.
Initially, the party has named its candidates for Khammam (Nama Nageswara Rao), Mahabubabad (Maloth Kavitha), Peddapalli (Koppula Eshwar) and Karimnagar (Boinapally Vinod Kumar) followed by Manne Srinivas Reddy for Mahabubnagar seat. Mr. Nageswara Rao, Ms. Kavitha and Mr. Srinivas Reddy are sitting MPs of the party.
Later, the party picked up Bajireddy Goverdhan for Nizamabad, Dr. Kadiyam Kavya for Warangal, Kasani Gnaneshwar for Chevella and Gali Anil Kumar for Zaheerabad Lok Sabha seats followed by Ragidi Laxma Reddy for Malkajigiri and Athram Sakku for Adilabad Lok Sabha seats.
Sitting MP of the party from Peddapalli, B. Venkatesh Netha, was the first to switch loyalties from BRS. However, Congress leadership has denied the ticket to him preferring Gaddam Vamshi Krishna, son of Chennur MLA and former MP G. Vivekanand.
Similarly, the BRS sitting MPs from Zaheerabad (B.B. Patil), Nagarkurnool (P. Ramulu) and Chevella (G. Ranjith Reddy) have also deserted BRS. While the first two have joined BJP, Mr. Ranjith Reddy joined the Congress. Mr. Patil has been retained as the candidate by BJP and it has picked up Mr. Ramulu’s son for Nagarkurnool. The Congress has fielded Mr. Ranjith Reddy from the same seat (Chevella).
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