Congress Disappears From Undivided Nalgonda District

The grand old party of the country, the Congress, has disappeared completely from its once strong turf, the undivided Nalgonda district.

The party, which hoped to retain Munugodu in the by-election after its MLA Komatireddy Raj Gopal Reddy defected to the BJP and resigned in August, was handed a humiliating defeat by the TRS, with the party candidate Palvai Sravanthi losing her deposit.

Barring two constituencies - Huzurnagar and Munugodu - the TRS had won all the Assembly seats in the undivided Nalgonda district in the 2018 Assembly elections. And after the Huzurnagar MLA Uttam Kumar Reddy resigned after becoming the MP of Nalgonda in the 2019 general elections, TRS candidate Sanampudi Saidi Reddy won the seat in the ensuing by-election. And now the Congress has lost its last seat in the district in Munugodu.

The blitzkrieg election campaign of the party's State unit president Revanth Reddy for the victory of its candidate clearly did not have much impact on the voters of the constituency.

The party hasn't won any by-election held in the State after the 2018 Assembly elections. It lost in the Dubbaka, Huzurnagar and Nagarjuna Sagar by-elections, too. And it failed to give even a tough fight to the TRS in Munugodu, failing to do well even in its strong bastions in the constituency like Samsthan Narayanpur and Chandur.