Congress announces first set of candidates for Telangana polls

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The month of November earmarks key assembly elections in five states for which the Congress party on Sunday released the first list of 55 candidates for the Telangana assembly polls scheduled for the end of next month...

The party also announced its first list of 30 and 144 candidates for the Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh assembly polls respectively...

Telangana has 119 seats as part of its assembly of which the Kharge-led party presently has 19 seats in the southern state and had achieved a vote share of 28.9 per cent during 2018 elections...

Congress has fielded its state chief Anumala Revanth Reddy from Kodangal assembly seat while CLP leader Bhatti Vikramarka Mallu has been fielded from Madhira-SC seat...

The Congress list of candidates for the Telangana state dominates people from this community is an attempt for a long-standing pattern that has aided the Congress in strengthening its hold on power...

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