HYDERABAD: The Praja Rajyam Party (PRP) has finally decided to contest the GHMC elections and released the names of 50 candidates barely three hours before the closure of nominations today. However, the list itself indicated that it was prepared in a hurry.
The name of a candidate which appeared in the preliminary list was deleted in the final list. Serial number 27 was repeated twice in the list circulated to the media.
Serial number 21 which was there in the draft list was missing in the list given to the media.
Though the party announced that they were declaring the names of 51 candidates, there were only 50 names in the list released by the party.
Addressing a press conference at the party office around 12 noon (the nominations were closed at 3 p.m today), party leader Kotagiri Vidyadhara Rao said that some more names would be announced before November 10, the last day to file Bforms.
He said the party had decided to field its candidates where the party was strong organisationally.
On the rumours that Chiranjeevi will go to Delhi to meet AICC president Sonia Gandhi on November 9, Vidyadhara Rao rubbished those reports. The Congress party itself proposed an alliance with the PRP for the GHMC polls.
The alliance did not materialise due to the internal struggles in the Congress, he said and added that PRP has nothing to do with it.