Hyderabad: City voters have not embraced the Congress in the Lok Sabha elections too. Instead, Hyderabad electors, who were loyal to the BRS in the Assembly elections, have shifted their loyalty to the BJP.
In Malkajgiri, the BJP’s Etala Rajendar won with a majority of over 3.91 lakh votes which is more than Asaduddin Owaisi’s majority in Hyderabad of 3.38 lakh votes.
In Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) limits, covering 24 Assembly segments, most electors voted for BJP with Congress coming in second and the BRS third.
However, the Congress won the Secunderabad Cantonment byelection with Sriganesh Narayan of the Congress defeating BJP’s Vamsha Tilak and winning the seat with a majority of 13,206 votes.
In Hyderabad Lok Sabha segment, Owaisi retained his seat, defeating the BJP’s Madhavi Latha, proving yet again that the Old City was his bastion.
In Hyderabad constituency too, the BRS was behind the Congress. Mohammed Waliullah Sameer secured 62,962 votes pushing the BRS’s Gaddam Srinivas Yadav to fourth place.
In Secunderabad, Telangana BJP president and Union minister G, Kishan Reddy retained his seat, defeating the Congress Danama Nagender by 49,944 votes. BRS candidate T. Padma Rao came third and lost his deposit.
In Chevella, part of which is in the city’s hi-tech zone, the BJP was ahead of the Congress while the BRS came in third. BJP’s Konda Vishweshwar Reddy defeated G. Ranjith Reddy of the Congress by 1,73,105 votes. The Assembly segments of Serilingampally, covering most of the city’s IT corridor, Rajendranagar and Maheshwaram fall in the GHMC area.
Rajendar won Malkajgiri with a majority of 3,91,475 votes over Patnam Suneetha Mahender Reddy of the Congress. Of the seven Assembly segments of this constituency, only one, Medchal, does not fall in GHMC limits.
In Medak parliamentary constituency which comprises Patancheru, the only urban Assembly segment in the constituency, The BJP's M. Raghunandan Rao defeated Congress’s Neelam Madhu with 39,139 votes.
