MLC Sharif files papers for post of Council chief

Vijayawada: MLC Mohammad Sharif filed nomination papers on Wednesday for the post of chairman of AP Legislative Council. He is the only candidate who filed papers and the election will be declared on Thursday.

Sharif along with finance and legislative affairs minister Yanamala Ramakrishnudu, IT and panchayat raj minister Nara Lokesh, agriculture minister Somireddy Chandramohan Reddy and excise minister K S Jawahar handed over the nomination papers to K Satyanarayana Rao, deputy secretary of the AP Legislature. 

The chairman post of the AP Legislative Council fell vacant after former chairman NMD Farooq was inducted into the state Cabinet in 
November 2018.