Know Your Bhongir MP Komatireddy Venkat Reddy

A former minister in the erstwhile united Andhra Pradesh, Komatireddy Venkatreddy who won from Bhongir constituency by a wafer thin margin of 5,219 votes, fought a pitched battle with TRS’ Dr Boora Narsaiah Goud. Throughout the counting of votes on Thursday, Venkatreddy was in the lead for most part but by evening, it was clear that Narsaiah Goud was heading for a defeat.

Venkat Reddy received 5,32,795 votes against Narsaiah Goud’s 5,27,576 votes making this one of the most closely fought contests in the current Lok Sabha elections.

For Venkat Reddy, who first won as an MLA from Nalgonda in 1999 and went on to repeat the feat in three more times in 2004, 2009 and 2014, the Lok Sabha polls were battle for reclaiming lost ground after his defeat in the 2018 December elections from Nalgonda Assembly constituency. He was one of the few Congress politicians to have jumped on the cause of a separate Telangana state resigning as a Minister in 2010 in the then Congress government of Andhra Pradesh and from his MLA post. While his party refused to accept his resignation as an MLA, he once again sought to quit his MLA post in 2011 and received a similar reaction from his party.