Hyderabad: Around 60 per cent of Goshamahal Assembly constituency has commercial areas while 40 per cent comprises locals. Most of the businessmen and residents are migrant population, drawn from north India with Lodha community being the most dominant.
T. Raja Singh, the local BJP legislator, who is eyeing a hat-trick and has close relations with the RSS, was elected for the first time in 2014 and re-elected in 2018. Before 2008, the constituency was known as Maharajgunj. In the 2009 elections, the seat was won by Prem Singh Rathore, who is presently in the TRS.
Goshamahal constituency was created before the 2009 elections under the Delimitation Act of 2009.
The constituency comprises commercial areas like Goshamahal, Afzalqunj , Koti, Sultan Bazar and MJ Market, while the residential areas include Begum Bazar, Dhoolpet, Raheemnagar, Jingur Basti, Ghode-Ki-Khabar, Indiranagar and Mangalhat, among others.
In the 2014 Assembly elections, Raja Singh, the Mangalhat corporator, secured 55,829 votes against Premsingh Rathore (TRS), who won 35,241 votes and Mukesh Goud (INC) who polled 26,322 votes.
In the 2018 elections, Raja Singh polled 92,757 votes while Mukesh Goud secured 45,964 and Rathore did not contest.
