Hyderabad, April 4 -- The Central Election Committee of the Bharatiya Janata Party has announced their candidate for the upcoming biennial election to the Telangana Legislative Council from Hyderabad Local Authorities' constituency.

According to a press release from the BJP, the party has fielded N Goutham Rao from the Hyderabad for the April 23 polls.

The Election Commission on March 31 announced the biennial elections for the one seat of Telangana Legislative Council, and said that the Model Code of Conduct has come into force in the Hyderabad Local Authorities constituency.

The polling was necessitated as the term of Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) MLC, MS Prabhakar, will expire on May 1.

According to ECI, the last date of filing nomi...