Congress leaves 24 Telangana seats for TDP, allies


Hyderabad, Nov 1 (IANS): Telangana's main opposition Congress party on Thursday decided to contest 95 Assembly seats and leave the remaining 24 seats for the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) and other constituents of the grand alliance.

Under the seat sharing agreement, the Congress has allotted 14 seats to the TDP while the remaining 10 will go to the Telangana Jana Samithi (TJS) and the Communist Party of India.

Elections to the 119-member Assembly are scheduled to be held on December 7.

President of the Telangana unit of the Congress Uttam Kumar Reddy announced the decision in New Delhi on Thursday.

The Congress' Central Election Committee discussed the list of candidates sent by the party's state unit.

Reddy said the candidates will be announced on November 8 or 9.

  

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  • j.anata, Mangaluru / Bengaluru

    Thu, Nov 01 2018

    Tight slap on face of Naidu. Congress takes 94 & he gets 14 seats to contest in an assembly of 119 until 2014 which was part of larger Andhra Pradesh.

    I seriously doubt this Mahakutumi will work out. Its a loss before the game begins for Naidu

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  • Rolf, Dubai

    Thu, Nov 01 2018

    Cheddi are getting shorter and shorter .
    will end up in Gestring 2019

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