YSRCP Also Gives TRS A Run For Its Money In Parkal As It Sweeps 15 Assembly, Nellore LS Seats; TDP Decimated
Hyderabad: Jaganmohan Reddy allowed himself a broad smile in Chanchalguda jail as his YSR Congress Party stormed to victory in Nellore Lok Sabha and 15 assembly seats in the widely-watched bypolls, the results of which were declared on Friday. The Congress was spared the blushes by winning in two seats -- Ramachandrapuram and Narsapuram. TDP out of sorts for a long time churned another dismal performance drawing a blank. The TRS, which project itself as a champion of separate Telangana cause, almost lost the neck-and-neck battle in Parkal to the YSRCP.
With its resounding victory, Jagan’s party proved that its primary claim to YSR’s legacy and promise of a ‘suvarna rajyam’ (golden rule) scored heavily with the
voters, especially women. Voters seem to have largely ignored the corruption charges against Jagan, which formed a major part of the campaign plank of both the Congress and TDP. Also, he was largely helped by the polarization of Reddy votes irrespective of the regions. “Jagan will emerge as the greatest leader of this country. He will create a wave much before the 2014 elections,” claimed YSR CP’s Kapu Ramachandra Reddy, who won the Rayadurg seat from the badlands of Rayalaseema.
The high-profile and multi-leader campaign unleashed by the Congress evidently had no effect as the YSRCP was able to build on the ‘insults’ meted out to YSR family by the ruling Congress. Following Jagan’s arrest by the CBI on May 27, Vijayamma and Sharmila, who toured all the 18 assembly constituencies and the Nellore LS segment, managed to keep the sympathy factor alive and kicking.
Curiously, chief minister Kiran Kumar Reddy chose the day of reckoning to fly to Delhi, ostensibly for a meeting on the presidential election. Chandrababu Naidu and Chiranjeevi, who ran a high-pitched campaign, came out as duds, while Jagan cemented his dominance in the state politics. His party's candidate Mekapati Rajamohan Reddy won by a massive margin of 2,91,745 votes against his nearest rival and former Union minister T Subbarami Reddy in the Nellore Lok Sabha seat.
In what can be seen as a near decimation, the ruling Congress came third in 10 seats, bagged a poor fifth place in Parkal and forfeited its deposit in five other seats. Shockingly, the Congress put up a brave face.
RESULTS Cong 2 TDP 0 TRS 1 YSRCP 15 BJP 0 Mom carries happy tidings to Jagan
Hyderabad: Union minister Vayalar Ravi, who was sent as a trouble-shooter by the high command, bragged that the results were on expected lines andthattherewas nodanger to the Kiran government. Party vice-president Tripurana Venkata Rathnam attributedit as a failure of the Congress to project the welfare schemes as its policies.
In what could be a lesson to pro-Telangana forces, KCR’s Telangana Rashtra Samithi scraped through Parkal where YSR CP’s Konda Surekha gave a very tough fight. It was sour grapes for Chandrababu Naidu’s TDP which, despite its tall claims, was undone by its corruption bogey against Jagan. It came a poor third in three seats, and lost deposit in five segments.
Even as the YSRCP stretched its lead and scored decisive victories, Vijayamma along with Sharmila and daughter-in-law Bharati rushed to the Chanchalguda jail to share the happy news with Jagan. Sharmila, who stole the limelight during the campaigning, said the verdict was a fitting lesson to both the Congress and TDP. “Jagananna was expecting to win all the 18 seats. But the results prove that vindictive politics do not work,” she said. She claimed that Jagan could become the chief minister by 2014.“People believe that Jagan is innocent,” she said. Vijayamma said her son worked hard for the victory and the results clearly established that people want YSR’s rule. The YSRCP won Polavaram, Prathipadu, Macherla, Yemmiganur, Allagada, Rajampet, Rayachoti, Railway Kodur, Narsannapet, Payakaraopet, Ongole, Udayagiri, Rayadurg, Anantapur Urban and Tirupati seats. Despite having the last laugh, Jagan, however, received a jolt with the defeat of top leaders P Subhash Chandra Bose in Ramachandrapuram and Konda Surekha in Parkal.
The results mean the YSRCP has wrested 13 seats from theCongress andoneseat from Chiranjeevi’s Prajarajyam Party, which had merged with the Congress. The TRS snatched one seat from the Congress. With two seats in its kitty, the Congress tally in the 294-member assembly stands at 155. Former minister K Subbarayudu of Congress won Narsapuram seat in West Godavari. The Congress won a seat each in East Godavari and West Godavari in coastal Andhra but lost seven other seats in the region.
More than 4.6 million voters had exercised their franchise in 5,413 polling stations across 12 districts on June 12.
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