Hyderabad: Once again the TRS party proved its dominance in Warangal by claiming 44 of the 58 divisions in the GWMC elections. The final results were declared on Wednesday after counting took place at the Enumamula market yard.
TRS claimed dominance right from the first round as it kept increasing its overall tally and finally ended up with 44 seats to its name. Opposition parties could not give any competition to the ruling party as the Congress is restricted to four divisions, the BJP and CPM just one and the TDP could not open its account at all. Independent candidates, rebels who filed nominations against the TRS, won in 8 divisions.
For the first time, a different procedure was used while declaring the results. Instead of counting all the wards at a time and declaring the leads round by round, only six divisions were taken per each round and results were declared directly for those six divisions only. Officials said they decided to proceed with this method to avoid candidates and party agents stuffing the counting halls. Only the representatives of the six divisions in each round were allowed in the hall while counting.
After the declaration of results, the TRS party cadre started their celebrations. They celebrated by dancing and beating drums.
Candidates visited colonies in their wards and thanked the people for supporting them. K. Madhavi, who won from division 38 said the TRS government’s people welfare schemes have made the people come forward and vote for the TRS. She visited come colonies under her ward and thanked the people. KU student leader Jorika Ramesh who won from 34th division thanked KCR for recognizing the students’ efforts during the Telangana agitation. “Students of Kakatiya University played an important role during the Telangana struggle for 15 years. We are thankful to CM KCR for giving us this opportunity to serve to the people of Telangana. All MLAs and MPs supported me a lot. I thank all the people for supporting me with such a huge win,” he said.
The party did not have its presence in Khammam in the previous municipal election, hoisted its flag first time. The ruling party bagged 34 seats out fo 50 divisions. It won in eighteen divisions from one to twenty divisions. All the three ST candidates from TRS such as Gugplotu Papalal from second division, Daravat Rammoorthy Naik from first division and Rudavat Ramadevi from 38th division won in the election and the new mayor will be elected on March 15.
The ruling party has to select one of the corporator for the mayor post from these three corporators. As per the sources, the top leaders of the party have been showing favour in placing Gugulotu Papalal, a gybacologist for the post and he won in second division with the margin of 1500 votes. TRS, which got only 12,000 votes in the 2014 assembly elections in Khammam assembly segment, surprised many by getting KMC in the election.
TRS candidate from 33 division Seelamsetti Rama got highest majority votes. She defeated his opponent candidate Regella Ramana of TDP with 2590 votes margin. Rama obtained 2879 votes and Ramana with 289 votes. All the opposition candidates lost their deposit in the division.
The staying and campaigning of Deputy Chief Minister Mahmmad Ali for four days in Khammam had also paid dividends apart from the strategy of Minister for Roads and Buildings T Nageswara Rao and the visit of four MLAs in the campaign. The TRS candidate Meda Prasanthalaxmi won in eleventh division where Congress MLA Puvvada Ajay Kumar fielded his sister in-law Puvvada Jayasri from CPI. Prasantha Laxmi got 2489 votes against Jayasri, who obtained 2178 votes.
TRS president Budan Baig said that the winning of the party in the election is as expected. “People of Khammam blessed TRS and its development programs”, he said.
