TDP bags Nandigama seat with huge majority
Hyderabad, September 16: Giving the ruling party a boost, Telugu Desam Party's Tangirala Sowmya today won the Nandigama Assembly by-poll in Andhra Pradesh by 74,827 votes.
Riding on the sympathy wave, Sowmya, a software engineer, got 99,748 votes, pushing her Congress rival Bodapati Babu Rao to a distant second with 24,921 votes in a straight contest in Krishna district.
The election was necessitated due to the death of victorious TDP candidate Tangirala Prabhakar Rao. He died even before taking oath as the MLA. The main opposition YSRCP opted out of the contest paving way for Soumya's victory.
Talking to reporters, Sowmya attributed her victory to the leadership of TDP President and Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu and her late father's hard work and clean image.Though she expected to win, Sowmya said she did not expect the margin to be as high as about 75,000 votes.
Meanwhile,In Telangana ruling TRS's T K Prabhakar Reddy was leading by a huge margin of more than 1.5 lakh votes in Medak constituency over rival Congress at end of seventh round of counting for Lok Sabha bypoll.
TRS candidate K Prabhakar Reddy was ahead by 1,45,540 votes by the end of seventh round over his nearest Congress rival V Sunita Laxma Reddy. The TRS nominee mustered 2,26,148 votes, while the Congress and BJP secured 80,608 and 64,226 votes respectively.
As it was already predicted, now the TRS is sweeping off the major segments as some places of Medak somehow are being shared between BJP and Congress.
News Posted: 16 September, 2014
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