Hyderabad: The first list of BJP for the ensuing Assembly polls with 50 to 70 candidates is likely to be announced today.
According to the party sources, Huzurabad MLA Etala Rajender is to contest from the Gazwel constituency, where BRS chief and Chief Minister K Chandrasekhara Rao is in the election fray. Similarly, the party reportedly to field three BJP sitting MPs from Adilabad, Karimnagar and Nizamabad in the assembly polls. However, the former state BJP chief and BJP OBC national president Dr. K Laxman and current state BJP chief and Union Minister of Culture, G Kishan Reddy, are likely exceptions. Given Dr Laxman is heading the national chairman of the party OBC Morcha, he was sent to Lok Sabha from Uttar Pradesh last year. Similarly, Kishan Reddy is already holding the ministerial berth in the union cabinet, besides steering the state BJP. Thus, both the leaders were reportedly not on the list of candidates going to be out by Sunday morning.