TRS names candidate for Huzurnagar Assembly by-poll

Hyderabad | Saturday | 21st September, 2019

Summary:

A+ A-Hyderabad: The Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS), here on Saturday, named S.

Saidi Reddy its candidate for the Huzurnagar Assembly seat, hours after the Election Commission announced by-election on October 21. The by-election has been necessitated by resignation of N.

Uttam Kumar Reddy from the Assembly following his election to the Lok Sabha. In Assembly elections, Kumar Reddy, also the Congress Telangana unit chief, had defeated Saidi Reddy by 7,466 votes. Kumar Reddy is keen to field his wife Padmavathi Reddy, who lost the Assembly election from the Kodad constituency. But party’s state working president Revanth Reddy is not in favour of naming her as the candidate..