A day after retaining the Nagarjuna Sagar Assembly constituency in the bypolls, Telangana s ruling party Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) swept the municipal elections, capturing all seven urban local bodies that went to polls last week.The TRS .
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Contesting candidates waiting at a counting centre in Khammam on Monday. | Photo Credit: Rao G N
The ruling Telangana Rashtra Samithi continued its sway in the electoral politics in the State in its second term in office.
The party has obviously fine-tuned its poll strategies after the bypoll of Dubbak Assembly constituency and the election to Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation polls, where the TRS could not achieve expected results. The reorientation of the strategies by the party president and Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao yielded rich dividends as the party continued its victory march in the elections held for two municipal corporations and municipalities – Siddpet, Nakrekal, Atchampet, Jadcherla and Kothur.
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Andhra Pradesh chief minister Jagan Reddy. Photo: PTI
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TRS extends victory margin in Nagarjuna Sagar Assembly bypoll
Sun, May 2 2021 23:57 IST |
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TRS extends victory margin in Nagarjuna Sagar Assembly bypoll. Image Source: IANS News
Hyderabad, May 2 : The ruling Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS), which retained the Nagarjuna Sagar Assembly seat in the by-election, has increased its vote share and margin of victory compared to the 2018 polls.
The ruling party marginally increased its vote share to 47.05 per cent from 46.34 per cent. Its candidate Nomula Bhagat polled 89,804 votes to defeat his nearest rival K. Jana Reddy of the Congress by a margin of 18,872 votes.
The margin of victory for the TRS in 2018 was 7,771 votes. It was Bhagat s father Nomula Narasimhaiah who was elected as the TRS candidate in the previous elections, defeating Jana Reddy, a veteran Congress leader and a former minister in undivided Andhra Pradesh.