Hyderabad, May 2 (UNI) Ruling Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) candidate Nomula Bhagat on Sunday won the Nagarjuna Sagar Assembly seat for which the byelection was held on April 17.
Bhagat defeated his nearest rival and seven-time MLA of Congress party K Jana Reddy by over 18,000 votes after completion of counting of votes.
BJP candidate Dr Ravi Kumar secured third place.
The 37-year-old TRS Candidate got more than 87,000 votes while the 74-year-old Jana Reddy secured over 68,000 votes and the BJP got more than 7,000 votes.
However, the final result is yet to be declared officially by the Election Authorities.
The byelection was necessitated following the death of sitting TRS MLA Nomula Narsimhaiah in December last year.
The party had fielded Narsimhaiah’s son Bhagat as its candidate.
In the 2018 election, Nomula Narasimhaiah had won the seat by defeating Mr Jana Reddy by about 8,000 votes.
There are 41 candidates, including three women in the fray.
To prevent the spread of Coronavirus cases, the Election Commission made it clear that the winning candidates should only take a letter from the Returning Officer and no celebrations will be permitted.
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