Hyderabad: In the end, anti-incumbency and the Telangana Rashtra Samiti not living up to its pre-general election promises were so much talk in the wind as the 17-month-old ruling party created history on Tuesday.
Party candidate Pasun-oori Dayakar won the Warangal Lok Sabha bypoll with a record margin of 4,59, 092 votes, surpassing the 2014 victory margin of 3,97,574. No one, in his wildest dream, had predicted such a landslide victory for the TRS candidate.
The supposedly best-laid plans of the Congress and the BJP, of teaching Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao a lesson in humility by improving their vote share, came to naught as the 11 lakh voters of Warangal made their choice clear.
Except the Warangal bypoll winner Pasunoori Dayakar, the remaining 22 candidates in the fray, including Mr Sarve Satyanarayana (Congress), Dr P. Devaiah (BJP-TD), Nalla Surya Prakash(YSR Congress) and Prof. Gali Vinod Kumar (Left) lost their deposits as they failed to secure 1/6th of the valid votes polled.
The victory even surprised the ruling party as the senior leadership did not expect such a huge margin wherein the record margins of the 2014 big winners like Mr K. Chandrasekhar Rao (Medak) and Mr Kadiam Srihari (Warangal) who got 3.97 and 3.92 lakh majorities, were broken.
The Warangal win has once again proved that the strong Telangana sentiment is very much intact and that the Opposition parties are still unable to connect with the people due to lack of leaders whom the electorate can trust.
The win also proved beyond doubt that people are very much impressed with the TRS government’s achievements till date.
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