Counting officials go on tea break during 5th round

Munugodu: The tension continues to grip all three parties TRS, BJP and Congress as the officials during the counting has gone for a tea break. It is reported that the RO has given this as an excuse for the delay in releasing the results of the first four rounds.

It's all happening there in the Munugodu bypoll land where the Union Minister G Kishan Reddy has reportedly called up CEO Vikas Raj over phone and has questioned about the delay in round wise results and why it has not been uploaded so far. Soon after that the CEO has released 4 rounds results within 10 minutes.

It is reported that BJP is likely to complaint against the CEO for the delay in the results.

The TRS candidate K Prabhakar Reddy was in lead by 6706 votes in the first round where BJP was with 5350 and Congress with 1837. In the second round BJP was in lead with 8622 votes, TRS with 7781 and Congress with 1532. In the third round BJP was in lead with 7426 votes where TRS was with 7010 and Congress gained 1532.

The BJP is leading in the villages where the Ministers Ch Malla Reddy (Aregudem), V Prashant Reddy (Devulamma Nagaram) and V Srinivas Goud (Lingojiguda) were the incharges for TRS.

The BJP candidate Komatireddy Rajgopal Reddy secured lead in second, third and fourth round.

After two rounds of counting the TRS candidate Kusukuntla Prabhakar Reddy of TRS is leading with 318 votes against BJPs Komatireddy Rajgopal Reddy aftertwo rounds.

After round 5, the BJP in lead by 29,505, TRS 28,409 and INC 6,169