With the election schedule out, chief minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy wants to complete the finalization of candidates for the Lok Sabha
and assembly constituencies by end of the week.
Reddy decided to focus attention on the identification of candidates and spent the day at his camp office discussing the probable names to prepare a draft list to be ratified by the state election committee of the PCC on March 4. He was joined by his political advisor K V P Ramachandra Rao and later by PCC president D Srinivas in the exercise.
According to party sources, the meeting would continue on Tuesday as well. It is learnt that the there was no problem in regard to about 160 assembly constituencies. The Monday meeting discussed mainly about the probable names for these 160 constituencies. On Tuesday, they are likely to discuss about 120 seats where the number of claimants are more than two.
The list of 280 candidates would be placed before the state election committee of the PCC on March 4 and after it is ratified, Reddy would go to New Delhi and submit it to AICC.
