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MPs in the fray: All 3 from BJP bite the dust; 3 from Congress and 1 from BRS set to make the grade

The 3 BJP MPs who lost the Assembly elections were Bandi Sanjay Kumar, Arvind Dharmapuri, and Soyam Bapu Rao.

Published Dec 03, 2023 | 5:22 PM ⚊UpdatedDec 03, 2023 | 5:22 PM

File photo of Telangana BJP chief Bandi Sanjay Kumar. (Supplied)

There were seven MPs in the fray in the Telangana Assembly election — three each from the BJP and the Congress, and one from the BRS — and three of them will be regretting their decision.

All the three who bit the dust were from the BJP.

Three BJP MPs in the fray were: Nizamabad MP Arvind Dharmapuri contesting as MLA from Koratla, Karimnagar MP Bandi Sanjay Kumar from Karimnagar Assembly seat, and Adilabad MP Soyam Bapu Rao from the Boath segment.

All three were pushed to second place by their BRS rivals.

From the Congress, there were state party chief and Malkajgiri MP A Revanth Reddy contesting from his home segment of Kodangal, Bhongir MP Komatireddy Venkata Reddy contesting from Nalgonda, and Nalgonda MP Uttam Kumar Reddy contesting from Huzurnagar.

The BRS was the runner-up in all three seats.

Of course, Revanth Reddy came in third in Kamareddy, where he had filed his nomination to take on BRS supremo and Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao. The high profile match was not to be, as it was the BJP’s K Venkata Ramana Reddy who was all set to seal the contest at the time of writing this report.

The lone BRS MP on the fray was Kotha Prabhakar Reddy of Medak who was contesting the election from Dubbaka. According to Election Commission of India (ECI), was ahead by 53,585 over hos nearest BJP rival M Raghunandan Rao at the end of 18 of the 19 rounds of counting.

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The contests

In Kodangal, Revanth Reddy, with 69,810 votes at the end of 13 rounds of counting (out of 20), was comfortably ahead of his BRS rival Patnam Narender Reddy by over 20,000.

In Nalgonda, Komatireddy Venkata Reddy was ahead BRS rival K Bhupal Reddy by a whopping margin of over 51,500 after 21 rounds of counting.

In Huzurnagar, after 18 rounds of counting, Uttam Kumar Reddy had bagged 1,16,707 votes against Saidi Reddy Shanampudi of the BRS with 71,819 votes.

In Korutla, Arvind Dharmapuri lost by a margin of 10,305 (61810) to Kalvakuntla Sanjay of the BRS, who bagged 72,115 votes.

Former BJP state chief Bandi Sanjay was trailing in Karimnagar by 8,414 votes against Gangula Kamalakar of the BRS with 20 of the 25 rounds completed.

The BJP’s tribal face Soyam Bapu Rao was well behind Anil Yadav of the BRS in the Boath segment. He had bagged 52,365 votes against Yadav’s 74,122, with 21 of the 22 counting rounds over.

The lone BRS MP in the fray, Kotha Prabhakar Reddy, had polled 97,129 votes and was leading by a huge margin of 53,585 against his BJP rival M Raghunandan Rao who had gathered 43,544 votes after 18 of 19 rounds.