Munugode Byelection: I Am 100% Confident Of Winning, Says TRS Candidate Prabhakar Reddy

After the completion of second round of vote counting, TRS leads with 563 votes As Kusukuntla Prabhakar Reddy got 14,211 votes while BJP secured 13,648

After polling on Thursday for the high-octane Munugode byelection, the Election Commission began vote counting and will declare the results on Sunday. After leading in the first round and the second round of counting, Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) candidate Kusukuntla Prabhakar Reddy asserted that TRS will win Munugode by-election.

After the completion of second round of vote counting, TRS leads with 563 votes Kusukuntla Prabhakar Reddy got 14,211 votes while BJP secured 13,648. Meanwhile, Congress languishes with 3,597 votes after the counting of the second round.

Earlier on Saturday, BJP leader P Sudhakar Reddy said that he is confident about the party's victory despite TRS poured money like water for luring voters.

As reported earlier, the by-poll was declared after sitting MLA Komatireddy Rajagopal Reddy quit Congress in August to join BJP. He contested the by-poll on a BJP ticket. While 47 candidates in contention, eyes are on BJP's Rajagopal Reddy, former TRS MLA Kusukuntla Prabhakar Reddy and Congress' Sravanthi.

Congress' Sravanthi leaves Counting Centre 

A disappointed congress candidate Palvai Sravanthi Reddy left the counting centre. Munugode has been a congress and left party bastion previously. Her father Palvai Govardhan Reddy represented the constituency five times.

In 2018, it was Komatireddy Rajgopal Reddy who won the election on a congress ticket. He is now the BJP candidate.

The saffron party had only got around 8 per cent in the 2018 state election and now in this by-election emerged as the strongest opponent of TRS, while congress is in ruin.