BRS's Padi Kaushik Reddy Wins Huzurabad; Eatala Rajender Loses His Sitting Seat (image:padi kaushik reddy/facebook)

BRS“s Padi Kaushik Reddy Wins Huzurabad segment against sitting MLA and BJP candidate Eatala Rajender. Huzurabad has been his home ground where he won consecutively in 2014, 2018 Assembly elections as BRS candidate and in 2021 by-election as BJP nominee. Kaushik Reddy received 80333 votes, where Eatala Rajender could gather only 63460. The distant third came Congress nominee Voditala Pranav with 53164 votes.

In 2021 by-election Eata Rajender won the election with 107,022 votes and Gellu Srinivas Yadav of TRS (now BRS) came second with 83,167 votes. In 2018, Eatala Rajendar then TRS Party candidate won the segment with 1,04,840 votes and in the 2014 also he won with 95,315 votes.

Kaushik Reddy, who at first contested as a Congress candidate in 2018, shifted to the BRS later. In 2021, he became a member of the the Legislative Council (MLC). Kaushik Reddy is known for several controversial remarks, and recently his ‘suicide’ threat during an election campaign that he, along with his two family members would take life if people would not vote for him has posed police to file an FIR. Congress’ Voditala Pranav relatively inexperienced leader was with BRS, and later joined Congress.

Though Eatala Rajender was banking his own Mudiraj Community vote bank which gather around 25 per cent of the population, result reflect that it did not favour him.