Hyderabad sources stated that the Congress would not name the Chief Ministerial candidate in poll-bound Telangana, where it would fight the Assembly elections jointly with the TDP, CPI and Telangana Jana Samithi. A key party leader said “The AICC In-charge of Telangana, R C Khuntia maintained that the usual practice in the Congress was not to name the party's Chief Ministerial candidate before any Assembly election”.



Khuntia told "TPCC (Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee) President, Uttam Kumar Reddy will lead the campaign but the Chief Ministerial candidate will be finalized after the election". He said "It will be decided after the election results come out, with the views of MLAs, in consultation with our President Rahul Gandhi". Meanwhile Telangana Assembly was dissolved on September six more than eight months ahead of the expiry of its term on the recommendation of (now) Caretaker Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao, who opted to go for early elections.

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Furthermore the Congress which won 21 seats in the 119 member Assembly in the 2014 elections with a vote share of more than 25% has since struck an understanding with the TDP, the CPI and TJS of Prof M Kodandaram to fight the election jointly. He added "Seat sharing details have not been finalized but we have agreed to fight jointly," Khuntia said. "We will have a common agenda and also some strategy to campaign jointly”.


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