Hyderabad: Congress candidate Kadiyam Kavya won from the Warangal seat defeating Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate Aroori Ramesh and Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) candidate M Sudheer Kumar by over 2.16 lakh votes. Kadiyam Kavya, daughter of former deputy chief minister Kadiyam Srihari ditched the BRS along with her father in a dramatic fashion after the pink party announced her candidature from Warangal.
The Congress rewon Warangal after losing the seat to the BRS for three consecutive Lok Sabha elections (including a bypoll.) The final numbers will be updated after the final round of voting comes to an end. The 2009 Warangal Lok Sabha election saw Rajaiah Siricilla of the Indian National Congress (INC) win the seat with a total of 396,568 votes (38.
48%). The runner-up was Ramagalla Parameshwar of the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS), who received 271,907 votes (26.39%) followed by Dommati Sambaiah of the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) secured 135,697 votes (13.
17%). The 2014 Warangal Lok Sabha election saw Kadiyam Srihari of the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) win the seat with a total of 661,639 votes (56.33%).
The runner-up was Congress candidate S Rajaiah (22.9%) followed by BJP’s R Parameshwar (15.93%) A by-election in 2015, necessitated by the resignation of TRS MP Kadiyam Srihari saw the success of TRS candidate Pasunoori Dayakar who won the seat by securing 615403 votes (59.
50%). Congress candidate D Sarve Satyanarana stood second with 156315 votes (15.11%) and the BJP.