The Telangana Rashtra Samithi won 4 out of 7 seats in the recently held by-elections.
The Telangana Rashtra Samithi won 4 out of 7 seats in the recently held by-elections, results of which were announced on Wednesday.
The TRS candidates emerged victorious from Kollapur, Station Ghanpur, Kamareddy and Adilabbad. However, the TRS lost the Mahbubnagar seat to the BJP, by a margin of over 1,800 votes.
Former minister Nagam Janardhan Reddy, who resigned from the TDP and his post for the Telangana cause, won the Nagar Kurnool seat with a thumping majority. And as expected, the YSR Congress party won the Kovvur seat with a huge margin.
In Kovvur of Nellore district, N Prasanna Kumar Reddy secured 73,867, votes while his nearest rival, N Chandramohan Reddy of the TDP, got 50,380 votes. The Congress stood third, with 41,343 votes. The victory margin was 23,496 votes.
The Mahabubnagar seat went to the BJP, with its candidate Y Srinivas Reddy securing 39,272 votes against his nearest rival S Ibrahim of the TRS, who got 37,377 votes. Congress candidate M Prakash got 27,308 votes, while the TDP candidate got 17,506 votes. The margin was 1,897 votes.
Former minister Nagam Janardhan Reddy won the Nagar Kurnool seat as an independent candidate, with a majority of 27,327 votes. He secured 71,001 votes, while Congress candidate Damodar Reddy got 43,676 votes and M Janardhan Reddy of the TDP got 18,608 votes.
The TRS candidates won the remaining 4 seats with huge majorities. In Kollapur, TRS candidate and former minister Jupally Krishna Rao got 58,107 votes, to win the seat with a margin of 15,024 votes. P Vishnuvardhan Reddy of the Congress got 43,083 votes, and Chandrasekhar Rao of the TDP got 35,287 votes.
In Station Ghanpur, the TRS candidate T Rajaiah secured 81,279 votes, as against his nearest rival Kadiam Srihari, who got 48,641 votes. R Pratap of the Congress got 28,965 votes. The victory margin was 32,638 votes.
TRS candidate Jogu Ramanna won the Adilabad seat with a margin of 31,396 votes. While Ramanna got 59,452 votes, Ramchandra Reddy of the Congress got 28,056 votes, and P Shankar of the TDP secured 21,249.
Gampa Goverdhan of the TRS won from the Kamareddy seat with a whopping majority of 44,465 votes. He got 75,699 votes, while Congress candidate P Rajireddy got 31,234 votes and M Venugopal of the TDP got 17,839 votes. (INN)