TRS wins Sec'bad Cantonment Board polls
Hyderabad, Jan 13 (INN): By winning four out of eight seats, the Telangana Rashtra Samithi has emerged a clear winner in the elections of Secunderabad Cantonment Board whose results were declared here on Tuesday.
While TRS-supported candidates won from four wards, three rebel candidates and one Congress candidate won the elections. The TRS candidates Keshava Reddy (Ward II), Nalini Kiran (Ward IV), Pandu Yadav (Ward VI) and Bollaram Lokanatham (Ward VIII) were declared winners for the polls held on Sunday.
Similarly, TRS rebel candidates Anita Prabhakar (Ward III) and Maheshwar Reddy (Ward I) and Congress rebel candidate Ramakrishna (Ward V) emerged victorious. The Congress party, which had won the last elections, could win from only one ward where Tirumalgiri Bhagyasree won from Ward VII.
The SCB voters have rejected both the Congress and TDP candidates. They include daughter and son of former Union Minister Sarve Satyanarayana, Cantonment MLA's G. Sayanna's daughter and a close relative of former Deputy Chief Minister Damodar Rajanarsimha.
Speaking to media persons later, Commercial Taxes Minister Talasani Srinivas Yadav said that the victory of TRS-supported candidates in SCB elections clearly show the rising popularity of TRS in the city.
He hoped that the TRS would win the next GHMC polls in a similar fashion. He announced that the TRS candidate would be the Vice-Chairman of SCB and a decision in this regard would be taken by Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao.
News Posted: 13 January, 2015
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