The All India Congress Committee (AICC) has chosen Renuka Chowdhury and Anil Kumar Yadav as candidates for Rajya Sabha in Telangana. Anil Kumar Yadav is from the Secunderabad Lok Sabha segment, which has a large number of voters from the Yadav community. The Congress believes that sending Anil to Rajya Sabha will help them gain the support of this community during the Lok Sabha polls.
Anil’s father, Anjan Kumar Yadav, was the Member of Parliament from the same segment in 2004 and 2009. Congress had initially planned to field a senior leader from Secunderabad this time, but they have now decided to support Anil as the youth leader.
Renuka Chowdhury, who was aspiring to contest from the Khammam Lok Sabha seat, has been chosen for Rajya Sabha. Renuka is known as a strong leader and had even challenged a prominent Congress leader in Khairatabad area. Another advantage of sending her to Rajya Sabha is that it opens up the opportunity to select one of the two aspiring candidates for the Khammam Lok Sabha seat.
The Bharatiya Rashtriya Samithi (BRS) is likely to field Sai Kiran, the son of former minister Talsani Srinivas Yadav, for the Lok Sabha elections. Sai Kiran had previously lost to BJP leader and Union Minister G Kishan Reddy in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.
It has been confirmed that no member of the Gandhi family will be contesting the Lok Sabha polls from Telangana. AICC has decided to send Sonia Gandhi to Rajya Sabha and is considering asking Priyanka Gandhi to contest from Raebareli. Sonia Gandhi has never lost an election from Raebareli, and the Congress wants Priyanka to continue her legacy there.
