Ruling Telangana Rashtra Samiti(TRS)candidate and Minister Tummala Nageswara Rao has won the
Palair Assembly bypoll held on May 16,2016 in Telangana by a margin of 45,682 votes and wrested the seat from Congress
Tummala Nageswara Rao, MLC and Roads and Buildings Minister, secured 94,940 votes while defeating the main opposition Congress nominee Sucharita Reddy (49,258 votes), who was supported by the TDP and YSRCP
CPI(M) candidate P Sudarshan Rao, who was backed by CPI, got 15,538 votes.
Sucharita is wife of Congress leader Ramreddy Venkat Reddy, whose death necessitated the bypoll.
13 candidates, including nine Independents, were in the fray.
The by-election was necessitated after Congress MLA from the constituency Ramreddy Venkat Reddy passed away in March 2016
Note
Palair in Khammam district is the second Assembly seat after Narayankhed in Medak district that the TRS has wrested from the opposition, after it came to power in 2014.
The TRS had also swept the civic body elections in Warangal, Khammam and Achampet in Mahabubnagar district in March this year. Besides, it also emerged victorious in Siddipet Municipality elections in Medak.
The TRS had also won bypolls in Medak and Warangal Lok Sabha constituencies, held in September 2014 and November 2015 respectively, and swept the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation elections in February 2016
Tummala Nageswara Rao, MLC and Roads and Buildings Minister, secured 94,940 votes while defeating the main opposition Congress nominee Sucharita Reddy (49,258 votes), who was supported by the TDP and YSRCP
CPI(M) candidate P Sudarshan Rao, who was backed by CPI, got 15,538 votes.
Sucharita is wife of Congress leader Ramreddy Venkat Reddy, whose death necessitated the bypoll.
13 candidates, including nine Independents, were in the fray.
The by-election was necessitated after Congress MLA from the constituency Ramreddy Venkat Reddy passed away in March 2016
Note
Palair in Khammam district is the second Assembly seat after Narayankhed in Medak district that the TRS has wrested from the opposition, after it came to power in 2014.
The TRS had also swept the civic body elections in Warangal, Khammam and Achampet in Mahabubnagar district in March this year. Besides, it also emerged victorious in Siddipet Municipality elections in Medak.
The TRS had also won bypolls in Medak and Warangal Lok Sabha constituencies, held in September 2014 and November 2015 respectively, and swept the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation elections in February 2016
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