Second loss for TRS in a by-election
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For TRS, its defeat in Dubbak was solely the second in a by-election because the get together’s ascendance to recognition in the political spectrum in 2010.
The TRS had suffered a massive jolt in by-elections two years earlier in 2008 shedding 9 out of sixteen Assembly constituencies that it contested after making its sitting MLAs resign en masse demanding separate Telangana.
The TRS additionally misplaced two Lok Sabha seats in by-polls on the identical time. Party chief K. Chandrasekhar Rao, who had gained from Karimnagar with a majority of over two lakh votes in that time period of Lok Sabha, scraped by way of with simply 15,000 votes. Hanamkonda was the opposite Lok Sabha seat which the get together retained whereas shedding Adilabad and Warangal.
The 12 months 2010 noticed all ten MLAs of TRS once more resign en masse in help of the get together’s demand for a separate State. Then, the ten Assembly segments and Vemulawada, which had TDP MLA Chennamaneni Ramesh, and Nizamabad, which was vacated by BJP MLA Y. Laxminarayana, went to polls. With the TRS admitting Mr. Ramesh and giving him ticket and never fielding a candidate towards Mr. Laxminarayana as a result of he had made a frequent trigger with it, the get together inflicted humiliating defeat on the Congress and TDP in the by-elections that adopted. The TDP misplaced deposit in all 12 constituencies and Congress 4.
It was no going again for the TRS after that because it gained election after election with ease. The defeat of the get together at Mahabubnagar in 2012 and now at Dubbak had been the one ones that it misplaced in by-elections.
The BJP halted a clear sweep of TRS in the 2012 by-elections by wresting Mahabubnagar however the latter gained the remaining 4 seats — Station Ghanpur, Kolhapur, Adilabad and Kamareddy — that it contested. Another seat, Nagarkurnool, was left to an Independent, Nagam Janardhan Reddy. Like in Dubbak on Tuesday, the loss of TRS at Mahabubnagar was by a margin of just one,897 votes.
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