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TRS retains Medak; TDP Nandigama
The by-poll results of Medak Lok Sabha constituency in Telangana and Nandigama Assembly in Andhra Pradesh were on expected lines.
- Cong’s Sunitha Lakshma Reddy comes second in Medak
- BJP candidate pushed to third place
- KCR sees endorsement of TRS rule
- Sowmya wins father’s seat comfortably in Nandigama
Hyderabad: The by-poll results of Medak Lok Sabha constituency in Telangana and Nandigama Assembly in Andhra Pradesh were on expected lines. While the TRS reigned supreme in Medak, Telugu Desam Party (TDP) retained the Nandigama Assembly seat in Andhra Pradesh.
TRS nominee K Prabhakar Reddy recorded a huge victory margin of 3,61,277 votes in Medak, which was vacated by K Chandrasekhar Rao after he became Telangana chief minister though it fell short of Rao's 3.97 lakh votes victory margin in the May elections. The Congress came second, with V Sunita Lakshma Reddy getting 2, 10,523 votes, pushing BJP's T Jayaprakash Reddy (1, 86,334) to the third position.
Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao saw the victory as an endorsement of the TRS-led state government's functioning. "People have endorsed what we did in these three months (after coming to power)," Rao said at a press conference.
Speaking to the media Prabhakar Reddy said that he would strive to see that all the promises made by the Chief Minister were fulfilled. He said he would coordinate with the Centre and see that Medak constituency was developed. There was no stopping the TDP in Nandigama (SC), where its nominee Tangirala Sowmya, a software engineer, won by 74,827 votes.
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The election in this segment in Krishna district was necessitated by the death of Sowmya's father T Prabhakar due to cardiac arrest, just days after his election in May.
She polled 99,748 votes, even as her Congress rival Bodapati Babu Rao finished a distant second with 24,921 votes and succeeded in saving his deposit.
The main opposition YSR Congress Party did not field any candidate after the TDP requested other parties to make the election unanimous.
Sowmya said, “This victory was a gift from people to the Chandrababu Naidu government which completed 100 days in office on Tuesday and for declaring Vijayawada as the capital of Andhra Pradesh."
