Former minister, poet among 3 to be nominated to Telangana Legislative Council

Hyderabad, Nov 13 : Former minister Baswaraju Saraiah and well-known people’s poet-composer Gorati Venkanna are among three personalities who will be nominated to Telangana Legislative Council.
The names of Saraiah, Venkanna and Vysya community leader Boggarapu Dayanand were approved by the state Cabinet on Friday.
The cabinet meeting presided over by Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao decided to fill in three nominated MLC seats.
It approved the candidature of Saraiah, Venkanna and Dayanand. According to Chief Minister’s Office, the government has sent these names to Governor Tamilisai Soudararajan for approval.
Former Andhra Pradesh minister Baswaraju Saraiah hails from the Rajaka washermen community recognised as the most backward class community. The 59-year-old from Warangal district had served as the minister for backward classes welfare in Congress government in unidvided Andhra Pradesh from 2012 to 2014.
Saraiah, who was elected to Andhra Pradesh Assembly in 1999, 2004 and 2009, joined the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) in 2016.