By winning four out of eight seats, the Telangana Rashtra Samithi emerged a clear winner in the elections of the Secunderabad Cantonment Board whose results were declared on Tuesday.
TRS-supported candidates won from four wards, and three rebel candidates and one Congress candidate won the remaining seats.
TRS candidates Keshava Reddy (Ward II), Nalini Kiran (Ward IV), Pandu Yadav (Ward VI) and Bollaram Lokanatham (Ward VIII) were among the winners in the polls held on Sunday. TRS rebel candidates Anita Prabhakar (Ward III) and Maheshwar Reddy (Ward I), and Congress rebel candidate Ramakrishna (Ward V) also emerged victorious.
The Congress, which had won the last elections, could win from only one ward - Tirumalgiri Bhagyasree won from Ward VII.
The SCB voters rejected both Congress and TDP candidates. These included the daughter and son of former Union Minister Sarve Sathyanarayana, the daughter of Cantonment MLA G Sayanna, and a close relative of former Deputy Chief Minister Damodar Rajanarsimha.
Speaking to media persons later, Commercial Taxes Minister Talasani Srinivas Yadav said that the victory of the TRS-supported candidates in the SCB elections clearly showed the rising popularity of the TRS in the city. He expressed hope that the TRS would win the next GHMC polls in a similar fashion.
He also announced that a TRS candidate would be the Vice-Chairman of the SCB, and that a decision in this regard would be taken by Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao. (INN)
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