Telangana Results: KTR Wins Sircilla, Assures Support To Congress Govt As Oppn

KT Rama Rao contested the Sircilla seat, against Congress's KK Mahender Reddy and BJP leader Rani Rudrama Reddy.

KTR has been winning the Sircilla seat since the inception of Telangana in 2014.

BRS working president KT Rama Rao comfortably secured his bastion Sircilla by a winning margin of 29,000 votes despite anti-incumbency and Congress wave in the state. The Minister in CM K Chandrashekar Rao's outgoing cabinet secured 89,244 votes. Trailing behind him was Congress candidate KK Mahender Reddy who secured 59,557 votes.

KT Rama Rao went up against Reddy and BJP leader Rani Rudrama Reddy. Sircilla is located in the Rajanna Sircilla district of North Telangana. It is integral to the Karimnagar Lok Sabha constituency. However, KTR had to swallow his win with a bitter pill as his party  

"Unfortunately the results are not what we expected though we fought valiantly. But, we will continue to strive for the greater good of the people of Telangana and will play the role of constructive Opposition. We also assure all cooperation to the new government," KTR said.

 

 

KTR further said his party would introspect the results. "We are grateful that we were given two opportunities to work for the people of Telangana. Now that we have been relegated to Opposition, we have enough time to think and go into details of what happened exactly in the polls," he said.

 

 

Kalvakuntla Taraka Rama Rao, widely known as KTR, previously held key ministerial portfolios in Telangana's outgoing cabinet, overseeing Municipal Administration, Urban Development, Industries and Commerce, and Information Technology, Electronics, and Communications.

KTR also serves as the working president of the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS). He is the son of K. Chandrashekar Rao, the founder of Telangana Rashtra Samithi (now Bharat Rashtra Samiti).

In 2009, KTR entered politics, winning the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly Elections from the Sircilla constituency with a narrow victory margin of 171 votes against independent candidate K. K. Mahender Reddy. Subsequently, during the Telangana statehood movement, KTR and others resigned from the Assembly.

In July 2010, the High Court of Andhra Pradesh mandated by-polls in Sircilla and Vemulawada, among other Telangana towns. KTR contested again from Sircilla, defeating K. K. Mahender Reddy (now with the Indian National Congress) with a significant margin of 68,219 votes.

On June 2, 2014, KTR took office as a Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Telangana and assumed the role of Cabinet Minister for Information Technology and Panchayat Raj.

However, KTR has come under attack multiple times over dynasty politics row. Earlier, Revanth Reddy mocked KTR by saying that he was from merit quota while KTR was from management quota.