Two sitting MLAs of the BRS party of erstwhile Karimnagar district were replaced in the first list of the candidates announced by the Chief Minister K.Chandrasekhar Rao on Monday.
From the past few days speculation went around in the BRS party political circles of the united Karimnagar district that around five members of the sitting MLAs were not going to get the party ticket to contest in assembly elections this time which included Vemulawada MLA Ch.Ramesh Babu, Ramagundam MLA K.Chander Patel, Jagtial MLA Dr.S.Sanjay Kumar, Choppadandi MLA Sunke Ravi Shankar and Manakondur MLA R.Balakishan.
But only two sitting MLAs were replaced with including names of all other sitting MLAs in the first list along with MLA Padi Koushik Reddy from Huzurabad from where the former minister and BJP MLA Etala Rajendar was representing and ZP Chairman Putta Madhukar from Manthnai from where the Congress party MLA D.Sridhar Babu was representing.
Releasing the first list of candidates, the CM KCR said that Vemulawada MLA was a good a leader, but as he was facing allegations over citizenship row, he was replaced with the Chelmeda Laxmi Narasimha Rao to contest in coming assembly elections in BRS party ticket.
On the request made by the BRS party Korutla MLA Kalvakuntla Vidhyasagar Rao, the BRS party ticket was allotted to his son Dr.Sanjay which cannot be considered as replacing technically, he added.
Meanwhile, when the sitting MLAs along with their followers are celebrating the occasion, the key leaders from Ramagundam and Jagtial assembly constituency who held secret meetings and intensified their lobbying opposing the candidature of sitting MLAs of respective constituencies received a blow from the party leadership with announcing the names of the sitting MLAs Dr.Sanjay Kumar from Jagtial and K.Chander Patel from Ramagundam.
