Hours after dissolving assembly, KCR announces list of 105 candidates

Hours after dissolving the assembly, Telangana chief minister and Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) party chief K Chandrashekhar Rao announcing a list of 105 candidates for the assembly elections today.

''We are announcing a list of 105 candidates today,'' saidKCR after the state cabinet decidedto dissolve assembly in order to hold early polls.

The Telangana CM in a press conference at Telangana Bhavan shortly after meeting the governor said that polling for Telangana assembly might happen in November and results can be expected in the first week of December.

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''I say with authority, we fulfilled our manifesto promises and 76 other programmesnot mentioned in manifesto were also implemented,'' KCR said.

Describing Congress as villain number one for Telangana, KCR said there was not even a single incident of communal violence in the last four-and-a-half years. Telangana is peaceful, he added.

KCR also said that they had sacrificed 5-6 months of tenure.

Earlier Governor ESL Narasimhan approved the dissolution of the assembly as recommended by CM KCR and has asked him to continue as caretaker CM till the new government is formed.