Hyderabad: Senior Congress chief and famend lawyer Abhishek Manu Singhvi filed his nomination papers because the Congress candidate for the lone Rajya Sabha seat bypoll in Telangana on Wednesday. Singhvi will likely be declared elected unopposed because the BRS has stayed out of the competition resulting from lack of numbers, and the ballot scheduled for September 3 turns into infructuous.
With Singhvi’s election, the variety of Congress Rajya Sabha members from Telangana will rise to a few.
Accompanied by Chief Minister Revanth Reddy, Deputy Chief Minister Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka, minister N. Uttam Kumar Reddy and AICC Telangana affairs in-charge Deepa Dasmunsi, Singhvi filed his nomination papers with the returning officer within the Assembly premises.
The bypoll was necessitated by the resignation of BRS MP Okay. Keshava Rao on July 4, as he joined Congress. Rao’s six-year tenure was supposed to finish on April 9, 2026. Singhvi will likely be left with a time period of lower than 20 months.
Prior to the Assembly elections in December 2023, BRS held all seven seats from Telangana within the Rajya Sabha. But after the BRS misplaced energy, the Congress, with its elevated numbers, elected Renuka Chowdhury and M. Anil Kumar Yadav to the Upper House in February.
The remaining 4 MPs within the Rajya Sabha are from BRS. The time period Okay. R. Suresh Reddy will finish on April 9, 2026, together with Singhvi, and that of Bandi Partha Saradhi Reddy and Divakonda Damodar Rao on June 21, 2028.
The tenure of Renuka Chowdhury, Anil Kumar Yadav and , Vaddraju Ravichandra of the BRS will finish on April 2, 2030.