Hyderabad, July 25: Andhra Pradesh Congress president D Srinivas, TRS president K Chandrasekhar Rao’s son K T Rama Rao and popular Telugu comedian Babu Mohan are among the prominent candidates who are in the fray for bypolls to 12 Assembly seats in Telangana region to be held on Tuesday.
Stakes are high for Srinivas, who is trying his luck from his traditional Nizambabad Urban constituency, as he had lost last year’s Assembly election and his win in the current bypolls will boost his political career.
Srinivas reportedly has made failed attempts to get into the state Legislative Council and also the Rajya Sabha in the recent polls.
The senior Congress leader, who won from Nizamabad numerous times since 1980, is finding the going tough as his BJP rival Y Lakshminarayana, who defeated him in the last year’s Assembly election, is riding high on the wave of Telangana sentiments.
–Agencies