TRS Gets A Jolt In MLC Elections

Hyderabad: Telangana Rashtra Samithi which is riding high on the wave of success in Assembly elections in the state held in December 2018, met with a shock in the MLC elections.

The sitting MLC Pula Ravinder, the teacher’s MLC from PTRU lost against the UTF candidate Alugubelli Narsi Reddy from the Warangal, Khammam, and Nalgonda constituency. Of the total 18,885 votes polled Narsi Reddy bagged 8,976 votes and Pula Ravinder got 6279 votes.

The total number of votes required to win the seat was 9014 and Narsi Reddy fell short of 38 votes. However, with the adding the second preference votes Narsi Reddy emerged victorious. Pula Ravinder was supported by TRS and Narsi Reddy was supported by Congress and left parties. Narsi Reddy had earlier worked as the president of UTF state president.

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