HYDERABAD: Ruling Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) has captured Huzurnagar Assembly seat in Suryapet district from the Congress hold.
At the end of counting of votes on Thursday, the ruling party candidate S Saidi Reddy created a record by securing a majority of 43,233 votes over his immediate Congress rival N Padmavathi, wife of TPCC president N Uttam Kumar Reddy.
Saidi Reddy polled 1,12,796 votes while Padmavathi secured 69,563 votes. This is a record in the history of Huzurnagar constituency. The earlier record was when Uttam Kumar Reddy's victory with a majority of 29,194 votes in 2009.
The other two contenders - BJP and TDP - were nowhere close to the runner up. BJP's nominee K Rama Rao polled 2621 while the TDP Chava Kiranmayi secured 1827 votes.
The by-election was necessitated after sitting MLA Uttam Kumar Reddy resigned following his election to Lok Sabha from Nandyal in the recent general elections. The keenly fought election was significant for more than one reason. It has made it clear that the people's support for TRS was intact, contrary to the claims of the Congress that Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao had incurred the wrath of the people with his "dictatorial" ways of functioning, particularly in dealing with the strike by the TSRTC employees.