Hyderabad: DK Aruna becomes the first woman to win Mahbubnagar Lok Sabha seat

Hyderabad: BJP candidate DK Aruna became the first woman to win the Mahbubnagar Lok Sabha seat since 1952, when the first elections were held in the country. The Mahbubnagar seat was won by Congress leaders J Rameswara Rao and Mallikarjun Goud four times each. Former Union minister and senior Congress leader S Jaipal Reddy and AP Jithender Reddy won the seat twice each, while former chief minister and BRS president K Chandrasekhar Rao, Congress leader K Janardhan Reddy, Mutyal Rao, D Vittal Rao and Manne Srinivas Reddy won the seat once each. Aruna had also contested from Mahbubnagar in 2019 but lost to Congress candidate M Srinivas Reddy. However, this time she managed to win the seat by defeating Congress candidate Challa Vamshi Chand Reddy in a close contest. Woman wins Warangal seat after a gap of 40 years:
Congress candidate Kadiyam Kavya created history by capturing the Warangal Lok Sabha seat after a gap of 40 years. In 1984, TDP candidate T Kalpana Devi won the Warangal seat by defeating Congress candidate Kamaluddin Ahmed. However, she could not retain her seat in 1989 and since then no woman candidate has won the Warangal seat. In fact, since 1989, no major political party in the state has given a ticket to any woman from the Warangal Lok Sabha seat. Although some women contested from Warangal as independent candidates, they never won. However, this time Kavya managed to capture the seat by defeating BJP candidate Aruri Ramesh by a margin of 2,20,339 votes.