Senior YSRCP leader and former Andhra Pradesh minister Botsa Satyanarayana was elected unopposed as an MLC in the Visakhapatnam local body MLC elections held in Visakhapatnam.
The Election Commission issued an official statement in this regard.
After the announcement of the election result, there was a buzz at the Visakhapatnam Collectorate.
Speaking to the media after receiving the certificate that he was elected as an MLC, Botsa thanked party president Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy for encouraging him to contest by giving him the party's B form, and the party's district leaders for supporting him.
He said that he would continue in the MLC post for three years.
He said that although the YSRCP had the full strength required to win the Visakhapatnam local bodies MLC election, the ruling coalition government hatched conspiracies to win it and planned to contest in it until the end.