Each in-charge will supervise one parliamentary constituency and all urban local bodies within its geographical limits. The State Election Commission is expected to announce the municipal election schedule within the next couple of days, with polls likely to be completed before Feb 15. The in-charge ministers will be responsible for election planning, campaign strategy, preparations and coordination in their respective constituencies. Telangana Congress president B Mahesh Kumar Goud said screening committees have been constituted for candidate selection. The committees will be headed by the minister in charge of the parliamentary constituency, with district Congress committee presidents acting as convenors. Local MPs and MLAs will be consulted, and candidates will be shortlisted and finalised based on social justice, winnability and other considerations. Mahesh Goud appealed to party leaders and cadres in urban local bodies to resolve internal differences and extend full support to candidates who receive the Congress B-form. He said Revanth has set a target of winning 90% of the seats in the municipal elections. Komati for MalkajgiriMinister Komatireddy Venkat Reddy has been appointed in charge of municipal elections in ULBs under the Malkajgiri parliamentary constituency, while Mohammed Azharuddin will lead the campaign in Zaheerabad parliamentary constituency. Other ministers appointed as in-charges for municipal elections include N Uttam Kumar Reddy (Nizamabad), Damodar Raja Narasimha (Mahbubnagar), Tummala Nageswara Rao (Karimnagar), Ponnam Prabhakar (Mahabubabad), Ponguleti Srinivas Reddy (Warangal), Jupally Krishna Rao (Peddapally), Seethakka (Bhuvanagir), Adluri Laxman Kumar (Nalgonda), Vakiti Srihari (Nagarkurnool), G Vivek Venkatswamy (Medak), Konda Surekha (Khammam) and D Sridhar Babu (Chevella). Govt advisor P Sudarshan Reddy has been named in charge of the Adilabad parliamentary constituency and the urban local bodies within its limits.
