Bandi Sanjay Kumar, one of the official spokespersons of Telangana BJP, on Thursday found himself as one of the shock victors in the Lok Sabha elections from the State. His win over TRS’s senior leader and sitting MP Boinpalli Vinod Kumar pitchforked him into limelight. His margin of victory of 89,508 votes came not just as a shocker to the TRS but was also a surprise for the BJP itself.
Sanjay, the 47-year-old two time contestant in the Assembly elections on a BJP ticket – in 2014 and 2018 – lost both times but the turnaround came with a thumping win in these Lok Sabha elections. In the 2014 elections, he lost to TRS candidate Gangula Kamalakar only to face the same fate again in 2018.
Incidentally, Sanjay Kumar’s victory is all the more remarkable because not only did he defeat the TRS’s deputy floor leader in the Lok Sabha but did not have any top BJP leader from the national level campaign for him. In fact, BJP president Amit Shah who was to address a public meeting in Karimnagar in his support, cancelled it at the last minute. A BJP leader said Sanjay’s win was also special as none of the seven Assembly segments in the Karimnagar Lok Sabha constituency had a BJP MLA.
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