Telangana Cong charges `50k fee from Assembly poll contenders
The Telangana Congress will start accepting applications from candidates planning to contest the state Assembly elections, which will be held towards the end of the year, beginning Friday, a senior party leader said.
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Hyderabad The Telangana Congress will start accepting applications from candidates planning to contest the state Assembly elections, which will be held towards the end of the year, beginning Friday, a senior party leader said.
Following in the footsteps of the Karnataka Congress model, the Telangana unit will charge Rs 25,000 as an “applying” fee for the aspiring candidates of SC, ST, and the physically challenged categories and Rs 50,000 for the rest. The Karnataka unit of the party charged Rs 2 lakh, along with applications and other documents, from the aspiring candidates of the general category while it was Rs 1 lakh for SC/ST applicants in the Assembly polls held earlier in May. The Congress formed a three-member sub-committee headed by former deputy chief minister Damodar Raja Narasimha to formulate modalities to pick candidates for the polls, Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee Working President Mahesh Kumar Goud, one of the members of the panel, said.
“By this afternoon, we will be uploading the necessary forms to be filled up by the candidates. Applicants will have to fill up the form and submit it along with a DD (Rs 50,000 or Rs 25,000) before August 25,” Goud said.
