Newcomers make bigwigs bite dust

​Vikarabad: The voters of the district created a history by winning newcomers in the poll fray. Among the winners one pilot and one doctor were also there. Patnam Narender Reddy, the younger brother of the caretaker minister Patnam Mahender Reddy, defeated the Telangana working president A Revanth Reddy at Kodangal, whereas Mahender Reddy was defeated by newcomer Rohit Reddy (Congress) at Tandur. 

According to political pundits, the pink party’s votes were polled to BJP candidates at the constituencies such as Tandur. Out of the four constituencies Kodangal and Tandur drew the attention of the politicians at national level. 

According to local leaders, Kodangal which was considered as a fortress to Revanth Reddy witnessed his over enthusiasm and challenges to his rivals led to his shock defeat. Though midnight drama was staged during his arrest, as expected by his followers, sympathy factor was not worked out in his favour. He tasted the dust with a surprise victory to the first timer Patnam Narender Reddy. 

The same happened to Mahender Reddy at Tandur. The new entrant to the constituency P Rohit Reddy popularly known as ‘Pilot’ Rohit Reddy got the Congress ticket in the last moment seat sharing among the partners of the People’s Front. Earlier he was expelled from the pink party due to the differences cropped between him and Mahender Reddy. 

When the local Congress leaders were quarrelling with each other for the party ticket, Rohit Reddy joined the party and garbed the opportunity to contest from Tandur. Some of the leaders in the district opined that Congress candidates’ poll debacle at Vikarabad and Parigi were on account of delay in seat sharing and deciding the nominees of People’s Front. 

In Vikarabad, Methuku Anand (TRS) won the seat with 58,824 votes against his nearest candidate Gaddam Prasadakumar (Congress) who got 55,072 votes. Rayipalli Saikrishna (BJP) got 1,902 and CM Narsimhulu (BLF) 503 votes. In Parigi, Koppula Mahesh Reddy (TRS) won the seat with 82,941 votes against his nearest candidate T Rammohan Reddy (Congress) who got 66,541 votes. 

In Tandur, P Rohit Reddy (Congress) won the seat with 69,743 votes against his nearest candidate Patnam Mahender Reddy who got 67,358 votes. Patel Ravishankar (BJP) got 10,426 votes. In Kodangal, Patnam Narender Reddy (TRS) won the seat with 68,020 votes against his nearest candidate A Revanth Reddy (Congress) who got 58,943 votes, whereas Nagurao Namaji (BJP) got 1,865 votes.