The nomination of all the seven candidates who filed their papers for elections to Telangana Legislative Council on Thursday was found in order when the scrutiny was taken up on Friday.
The list of validly nominated candidates as released by the Chief Electoral Officer of Telangana read: Akula Lalitha (Congress), Tummala Nageswara Rao, K. Yadava Reddy, Vidyasagar Nethi, Venkateswarlu Bodakunti and Srihari Kadiyam (TRS) and Vem Narender Reddy (Telugu Desam).
Meanwhile, the TDP on Friday took objection to the inclusion of nominated MLA Elvis Stephension and TRS MLA Chennamaneni Ramesh in the voters’ list for the elections. The party protested that the nominated members were barred from participating in voting in Parliament and that Mr. Ramesh was also not eligible to vote as per the Supreme Court direction.