Celebrations Break Out As TRS Candidate Wrests Huzurnagar From Congress

Hyderabad, Oct.24 (Maxim News): Celebrations broke out across Telangana State on Thursday with the TRS candidate Sanampudi Saidi Reddy winning Huzurnagar Assembly seat in by-election with record margin. At the end of the 17th round, Saidi Reddy established an unassailable lead of over 35,500 votes over his nearest Congress rival Uttam Padmavathi.

TRS activists burst crackers to celebrate the party candidate’s thumping victory in Huzurnagar, supposedly a Congress bastion, while Ministers and party leaders distributed sweets and hailed the people’s confidence and faith in the TRS government led by Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao. The TRS candidate started the race to victory right from the word go when counting started at 8 am at the Suryapet Market Yard, with Saidi Reddy opening his account with a 2,000 lead in the very first round, a trend that continued in subsequent rounds. What is significant is that the TRS candidate held sway over the electorate even in places like Nereducherla, generally considered a Congress stronghold.

The by-election held on Monday was necessitated by the resignation of N Uttam Kumar Reddy from the seat following his election as MP from Nalgonda. The Congress pitted his wife Padmavathi against Saidi Reddy, who had lost the 2018 Assembly election to Uttam Kumar Reddy by a margin of a little over 7,000 votes. The TRS attributed the Congress victory then to the presence of truck symbol allotted to an Independent, which created confusion among the electorate since it closely resembled the car symbol of the ruling party. (Maxim News)