Hyderabad, March 13 -- The five candidates nominated by various political parties as MLCs under the MLAs' quota were unanimously elected on the last day of withdrawal of nominations on Thursday, March 13.

Vijayashanti, Addanki Dayakar and Shankar Nayak from Congress, Nellakanti Satyam from CPI, and Dasoju Sravan from BRS were unanimously declared elected by the returning officer, Upender, who handed over the authorisation certificates to them.

The CPI candidate filed his nomination along with deputy chief minister Bhatti Vikramarka, ministers and Congress MLAs on the last date of filing nominations.

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