TRS wins Huzurnagar by-election by a huge margin of 43,000 votes

The by-election drew a lot of attention from the public and the media as the two main rival political parties took the the election as a challenge

The ruling Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) has wrested Huzurnagar seat from the Congress party by a huge margin in the by-polls held to the lone assembly segment on October 21 in the state.

The ruling party candidate S Saidi Reddy has won the seat by a majority of 43,000 votes over Congress candidate N Padmavathi. The by-election was necessitated following the resignation of sitting MLA and Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) president N Uttam Kumar Reddy after his victory in the Lok Sabha elections.

The TRS fielded Saidi Reddy for the second time even though he had lost the seat by over 7,000