Reiterating its firm decision that candidates for the Assembly elections would be announced at the earliest, the Pradesh Election Committee (PEC) has decided to constitute a sub-committee headed by former Deputy Chief Minister Damodar Raj Narasimha to frame the modalities for candidate selection.
The PEC meeting chaired by TPCC president A. Revanth Reddy and attended by the Screening Committee chairman K. Muralidharan, Baba Siddiqui, N. Uttam Kumar Reddy and Jignesh Mevani (members) at Gandhi Bhavan on Monday evening discussed the election strategy for the year-end elections and also the manner in which candidate selection should be done.
The PEC members comprising 26 Congress leaders decided that a sub-committee comprising Mr. Damodar Raj Narasimha, TPCC working president B. Mahesh Kumar Goud and AICC secretary Rohit Chowdary would meet and finalise the modalities by August 17. The party has decided that it would invite applications from the aspirants from August 18 to 25.
