Telangana polls: Former deputy CM Thatikonda Rajaiah breaks down after being denied BRS ticket

Thatikonda Rajaiah, the leader of the Bharat Rashtra Samiti (BRS), sobbed on Wednesday after learning he would not receive a ticket from the Station Ghanpur constituency for the upcoming state legislative elections. Rajaiah encountered party members at the BRS office, where Rajaiah reportedly started crying and knelt down in front of a statue of B R Ambedkar.

Rajaiah is a sitting MLA from the Station Ghanpur constituency, which he has been representing since 2009.
In addition, Rajaiah also served as the Deputy Chief Minister of the state from 2014 to 2015.
Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao on Monday released the first list of candidates of the Bharatiya Rashtra Samiti party for the upcoming elections.
The names of the candidates have been announced for a total of 119 assembly seats.
According to the list released, the BRS chief will contest from two constituencies Kamareddy and Gajwel constituencies.

From the Sircilla constituency, Kalvakuntla Taraka Rama Rao (KTR) will run in the upcoming assembly elections. Additionally, T. Padma Rao, the deputy speaker, will run for office from Secunderabad. The 119 candidates running for the Telangana legislative assembly will be chosen in an election later this year. Elections are scheduled to take place in the north-eastern states of Tripura, Meghalaya, Nagaland, and Mizoram as well as in the states of Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, and Madhya Pradesh.