Hyderabad: Bandi won with the biggest margin in Telangana

Hyderabad: BJP candidate Bandi Sanjay on Tuesday surpassed the record of victory margin set by BRS president K Chandrasekhar Rao in the Karimnagar Lok Sabha bypoll in 2006. Chandrasekhar Rao had won the seat by a margin of 2,01,581 votes, while Sanjay Kumar’s victory margin was 2.25 lakh votes. In 2014, BRS candidate B Vinod Kumar won the Karimnagar seat by a margin of 2,05,007 votes. In 2019, Sanjay Kumar defeated Vinod Kumar by a margin of 89,508 votes.

Expressing gratitude to the people of Karimnagar for supporting him, Sanjay Kumar gave full credit for his victory to Prime Minister Narendra Modi. He said, “I could surpass all previous margins of victory due to the trust shown by the people of Karimnagar in PM Modi. I owe my victory to the PM and the people of the constituency, who elected me for a second term.” BJP wins Medak seat after a gap of 20 years: BJP has won the Medak Lok Sabha seat after a gap of 20 years. BJP leader Ale Narendra won the Medak seat on a BJP ticket in 1999 and 2004. After two decades, BJP candidate M Raghunandan Rao succeeded in winning the Medak seat by defeating BRS candidate P Venkatarami Reddy.