Congress focus on BC, SC, ST candidates for Telangana first list
Deccan ChronicleHYDERABAD: The TPCC election committee has decided to focus on giving tickets to candidates from the BC, SC and ST community candidates. The meeting also decided to write to AICC president Mallikarjun Kharge to hold the first meeting of the Congress Working Committee in Hyderabad. The committee met at Gandhi Bhavan on Tuesday to vet the list of Congress aspirants who had applied for an Assembly poll nomination, said TPCC working president Mahesh Kumar Goud. Screening committee chairman K. Muraleedharan, MP from Kerala, and members Baba Siddique, a former MLA in Maharashtra, and Jignesh Mevani, party MLA from Vadgam in Gujarat, will come to Hyderabad on September 4 for three days to hold discussions with stakeholders and prepare a report. Later in the night, TPCC vice-president Chamala Kiran Kumar Reddy said that a purported list of Congress candidates doing the rounds in some media circles was fake.