Cong likely to finalise candidates for Telangana by Mar 13

TPCC president N Uttam Kumar Reddy on Monday, said that their party would finalise the candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections by March 13. He also slammed the TRS for 'misdirecting' the people, by urging them to vote for their candidates in all 16 Lok Sabha seats, to ensure state's development, as none of them worked to fulfill the promises made to the state.

Hyderabad: Congress party in Telangana is likely to finalise its candidates for the coming Lok Sabha polls by March 13.

Party sources on Monday, said that the list was likely to be released on the same day itself.

Lok Sabha elections in Telangana would be held in the first phase on April 11.

The party is likely to contest the polls to 17 Lok Sabha seats in the state on its own.

It had faced the assembly elections in December last year in alliance with the Telugu Desam Party (TDP), Telangana Jana Samiti (TJS) and Communist Party of India (CPI), but the combine came to a cropper.

Meanwhile, Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC) president N Uttam Kumar Reddy on Monday slammed the ruling TRS for urging/appealing the people to elect its candidates in all the 16 Lok Sabha seats so that the state's development could be ensured.

He said despite the TRS having 16 MPs on its side in the outgoing Lok Sabha, the state was 'neglected'.

"...They could not do anything. TRS does not have the right to ask for vote in parliament election," Reddy, told the reporters here.

TRS had failed to ensure the realisation of the promises made to Telangana in the Andhra Pradesh Re-organisation Act, including setting up Information Technology Investment Region (ITIR) and national status for an irrigation project, he alleged.

Congress, if voted to power in the parliament elections, would implement the promises made in the re-organisation act, he assured.