TRS riding high in AP bypolls

Party has won three more seats, leading in three others

PTI | July 30, 2010



The Telugu Rashtra Samiti (TRS) won three more seats of Sirpur, Chennur and Mancherial among the 12 Assembly segments in the Telangana region of Andhra Pradesh where bypolls were held on July 27.

In Mancherial, TRS candidate defeated his nearest TDP rival by a margin of 77,922 votes. The TRS candidate polled 95,311 votes while the TDP nominee secured 17,259 votes.

In Chennur, TRS candidate won by 44, 284 votes while in Sirpur the party was victorious by 14,214 votes.

Earlier, TRS candidates T Harish Rao and K Eeshwar won from two Assembly constituencies -- Siddipet and Dharmapuri respectively.

Rao retained Siddipet with a record margin of 95,858 votes whereas his Congress and TDP rivals lost their deposits.

In Dharmapuri, TRS candidate K Eeshwar have defeated his nearest Congress rival A Lakshman Kumar by an impressive margin of 58,591 votes. He secured 86,720 votes while Congress nominee obtained 27,824 votes.

TRS candidate emerged victorious in Vemuluwada also by defeating his nearest Congress rival by a margin of 50,361 votes. The party candidates K Taraka Rama Rao in Sircilla, Kalvakuntla Vidyasagar Rao in Korutla and Etela Rajender in Huzurabad Assembly segments were ahead of their Congress opponents.

In the key constituency of Nizamabad, Congress state unite President D Srinivas lost out to BJP leader Y Lakshmi Narayana who won by a margin of 12,000 votes.

Narayana secured 64,176 votes while Srinivas got 62,195 votes, thus giving a majority of 11,981 votes to the BJP nominee.

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