Secunderabad Cantonment Congress MLA Sri Ganesh takes oath in Assembly
Hyderabad: The newly elected Secunderabad Cantonment Congress MLA N. Sri Ganesh took oath at the State Assembly here on Thursday.
Assembly Speaker Gaddam Prasad Kumar administered oath to Sri Ganesh in the presence of Transport Minister Ponnam Prabhakar, IT and Industries Minister D Sridhar Babu, Government Whip A. Laxman Kumar and MLA Yennam Srinivas Reddy.
The Ministers and MLAs later congratulated Sri Ganesh, who won the Secunderabad Cantonment Assembly byelection with a margin of 13,206 votes after completion of counting on June 4. The bypoll was required following the death of sitting BRS MLA G Lasya Nanditha in a road accident in February 2024.
After the accident, the BRS fielded Nanditha’s sister Niveditha Sayanna during byelections conducted on May 13. Sri Ganesh secured 53,651 votes while the BJP candidate Vamsha Tilak got 40,445 votes and Niveditha secured 34,462 votes.
The victory of Sri Ganesh marked the end of BRS 10-year rule.