A file photo of BRS President Chandrashekar Rao during a public meet at Narayanapet district of Telangana.
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Hyderabad: The BRS on Monday announced its first list of four candidates, retaining two sitting members, for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls.
Telangana has a total of 17 seats in the Lok Sabha.
The candidates announced by BRS President K Chandrasekhar Rao include Nama Nageswara Rao (Khammam), B Vinod Kumar (Karimnagar), Maloth Kavitha (Mahabubabad) and Koppula Eshwar (Peddapalli).
Nageswara Rao and Maloth Kavitha are members of the outgoing Lok Sabha.
Vinod Kumar is a former Lok Sabha member, while Koppula Eshwar was a minister in the previous BRS government.
The BRS president took the decision after holding consultations with important leaders in the respective parliamentary constituencies, and following a consensus on the names of the candidates, a party release said.