The All India Congress Committee AICC on Wednesday announced Mahesh Kumar Goud Bomma and Venkat Narsing Rao Balmoor as the party’s candidates for the upcoming January 29 byelections to the Telangana Legislative Council.
The elections are scheduled for the vacant seats in the legislative council after the BRS MLCs Kadiyam Srihari and P Kowshik Reddy resigned after they got elected in the recent legislative assembly polls. The legislative council members are elected by the MLAs.
"Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge has approved the proposal for the candidature of the following persons as Congress candidates to contest the byelections to the Legislative Council of Telangana to be elected by the MLAs. 1. Mahesh Kumar Goud Bomma, 2. Venkat Narsing Rao Balmoor," AICC General Secretary K C Venugopal said in a release.
While Mahesh Kumar Goud is the working president of the state Congress, Venkat Balmoor, a medical doctor, is the president of NSUI in Telangana.
Mahesh Kumar Goud handled key responsibilities as PCC working president, while Balmoor fought on youth issues like unemployment when BRS was in power till recently.
Congress MP Manickam Tagore, who was AICC in-charge of Telangana earlier, congratulated Mahesh Goud and Venkat Balmoor on social media platform X.
He said that loyalty would always be valued in Congress.
Tagore recalled that Venkat Balmoor had fought and lost the by-poll to the Huzurabad assembly seat in 2021 when PCC president Revanth Reddy and CLP leader Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka had asked him to contest.
January 18 is the last date to file nominations for the by-poll, and polling will be held on January 29. Votes will be counted on the same day after polling.
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