Kamareddy Positions Revanth Reddy In Lead While KCR Trails Behind

Kamareddy, the constituency in Telangana hit headlines as Telangana Congress President A. Revanth Reddy locking horns with incumbent chief minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao. As per the latest Election Commission reports, A. Revanth Reddy is leading in the assembly segment over 16266 votes where BRS supremo is lagging behind with 14133 votes.

For KCR, Kamareddy assembly constituency is a native region since he was born in Konapur village in maternal grandparents’ house. Kamareddy has been BRS”s sitting seat, and Gampa Govardhan of BRS (then TRS) won elections as an MLA five times in 1994, 2009, 2011, 2014 and 2018. KCR decided Kamareddy as his second seat when Gampa Govardhan dropped the seat.

According to Election Commission report, Congress is leading in Telangana with 65 seats, BRS 38, BJP 10, AIMIM 4 and CPI 1.

The 119 seats of Telangana Assembly segments went for polls in a single phase on November 30.  Telangana witnessed a three-cornered fight between BRS, Congress and BJP.  In 2018 Assembly elections, BRS (then Telangana Rashtra Samithi) won 88 of the 119 seats, securing 46. 8 per cent of the vote share while Congress could gather only 19 seats with 28. 4 per cent vote share.  In the elections, BRS has put up candidates for a total 119 seats, where Congress in 118 seats, and gave one seat to its ally CPI.