Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) on Wednesday finalised the candidature of former MP K Kavitha as party's nominee for MLC seat under Nizamabad Local Bodies category.
She will file the nomination today. Kavitha is daughter of Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao, had represented Nizamabad Lok Sabha seat as MP. However, in 2019 elections, she lost the seat to the BJP candidate Arvind Dharmapuri with a margin of over 70,000 votes.
Early this month, Election Commission of India (ECI) announced the by-election to Telangana Legislative Council under Nizamabad Local Authorities category.
The by-election was necessitated as R Bhoopathi Reddy, who was scheduled to retire on January 4, 2022, was disqualified on January 16, 2019.
Polling will be held on April 7 while the counting of votes will take place on April 9.March 19 is the last day of filing nomination.
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