Telangana polls LIVE: CM K Chandrasekhar Rao to file nomination today

Telangana Assembly Polls LIVE: BRS supremo and Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao will file his nomination papers in Gajwel and Kamareddy on Thursday for the November 30 Assembly elections. After filing his nomination papers, he will address a poll rally in Kamareddy in the afternoon, official sources said. Rao had visited the Lord Sri Venkateswara Swamy temple at Konaipally in Siddipet district on November 4 and offered special prayers before filing his nomination papers for the elections.

He will address 54 ‘Praja Ashirwad’ rallies before the elections between November 13 and 28. The BRS chief will address the last rally before the elections on November 28 in Gajwel. On Thursday, Income Tax officials conducted raids at Congress leader Ponguleti Srinivas Reddy’s residence in Telangana’s Khammam district, officials said.

Ponguleti Srinivas Reddy is contesting the November 30 elections from Palair constituency in Khammam district. “Income tax officials reportedly conducted raids at the residence of Ponguleti Srinivas Reddy,” officials said. Reddy, a former member of the Lok Sabha, had recently joined the Congress from BRS. In the previous assembly elections in the state in 2018, the BRS, formerly known as Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS), won 88 of the 119 seats, accounting for 47.4 percent of the total vote share. The Congress came a distant second with just 19 seats.