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TRS wins Narayankhed assembly seat with huge margin
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elangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) bagged Narayankhed assembly seat in the by-elections with a huge margin, snatching it from opposition Congress party. TRS candidate M Bhupal Reddy has been elected with a massive majority of over 53,000 votes over his nearest rival P Sanjeeva Reddy of Congress. In the by-election held on Saturday, 81.72 percent of 1.88 lakh voters had cast their votes. While Bhupal Reddy polled 93,076 votes, Sanjeeva Reddy secured 39,451 votes. Telugu Desam Party (TDP) candidate M Vijayapal Reddy finished third with 14,787 votes. The by-election was necessitated due to the death of sitting Congress legislator P Kishta Reddy in August 2015. The Congress party, which fielded Kishta Reddy's son Sanjeeva Reddy, was banking on sympathy factor while TRS, buoyed by a series of electoral victories, was looking to wrest the Congress stronghold on the basis of development and welfare schemes undertaken during last 19 months.
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Narayankhed in Medak district has always been a Congress stronghold. TRS had never won this assembly seat, while TDP could win it only once in 1994. In 2014 elections, Congress party's Kishta Reddy was elected with a majority of 14,746 votes over Bhupal Reddy of TRS. The win in Narayankhed has further strengthened TRS as this was the first by-election for an assembly seat after 2014 polls. The News You Like | March, 2016