TRS Retains Warangal Lok Sabha Seat

Trs candidate Pasnuri Dayakar registered a historic victory in the by-elections for Warangal Lok Sabha seat whose results were announced on Tuesday.

Dayakar has broken all records in Telangana and have defeated his rivals with a majority, which is fifth highest in the country. Dayakar secured 615,403 while his nearest rival Sarve Satyanarayana of Congress got 156,315 votes followed by BJP candidate Dr. P. Devaiah who got 130,178. Therefore, he won the by-elections with a majority of 459,092 votes which is far higher than the majority of 392,574 secured by his predecessor Kadiyam Srihari in 2014 general elections. Both, the Congress and BJP candidates, lost their deposits along with 20 others who were in fray. The YSRCP candidate got mere 23,222 votes.

Although the Warangal by-elections was considered a multi-cornered contest, the results have proved that it was one-sided affair for ruling Trs with Dayakar getting a clear and huge lead in all 22 rounds of counting.