Jagan Effect? TRS gets seats back, Cong routed

Grappling with the Jagan Mohan Reddy crisis in Andhra Pradesh, the Congress took another body blow today when it was routed in by-elections to 12 Assembly seats in the Telangana region where the TRS, riding a strong sentiment for a separate state, captured 11 seats.







To top the Congress misery, its state chief D Srinivas lost from Nizamabad Urban to Y Laksmi Narayana of BJP by 12,000 votes. Laksmi Narayana was supported by the TRS.







Chief Minister K Rosaiah said his party would respect the verdict of the people. The by-elections had to be held because sitting MLAs had quit their posts in support of a separate Telangana.







The results came as a shot in the arm for the TRS which is spearheading the Telangana movement — 14 months ago, it had been routed in the Telangana region, winning only 10 of the 45 it contested in alliance with the TDP.



TRS leader T Harish Rao, nephew of TRS president K Chandrasekhara Rao, set a record, retaining Siddipet in Medak with a victory margin of 95,858 votes. He polled 1,08,770 votes. He broke the 68,681-votes victory margin record of the late Y S Rajasekhara Reddy who was re-elected from Pulivendula in Kadapa in May 2009. The Congress and TDP candidates in Siddipet lost their deposits.







The by-elections were held in Siddipet, Sircilla, Vemulavada, Huzurabad, Chennur, Sirpur, Macherial, Korutla, Warangal (West), Yellaredy, Dharmapuri, Nizamabad (Urban).







The TRS, besides retaining its 10 seats, wrested Vemulavada from the TDP. Defying his party, TDP MLA C Ramesh resigned in favour of a separate Telangana and was expelled. He contested on a TRS ticket this time and won. KCR's son K T Rama Rao won from Sirculla.


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