Bypoll Boost For BRS: TRS wins Munugodu

Hyderabad: The TRS, now rechristened as Bharat Rashtra Samithi, on Sunday clinched the first big victory by defeating the BJP by a margin of over 10,000 votes in the Munugodu Assembly byelection.

Though the BJP certainly gave a tough fight in the byelection, the ruling TRS pulled a fast one with the support of the Left parties in the bypoll in which party candidate K Prabhakar Reddy won over BJP's Komatireddy Rajagopal Reddy.

Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao's political strategy to reinvigorate the BRS by uniting all dissenting leaders helped the party winning the high-voltage election. Though the BJP claimed that the TRS has misused police and official machinery on the polling day, the TRS candidate could get 10,300 majority. The BJP could show its upper hand only in about four rounds. The TRS secured 96,598 votes, BJP (86,485) and Congress candidate Palvai Sravanthi lost deposit as she got only 23,864 votes.