TDP sweeps Guntur district, Nara Lokesh wins an Assembly seat for the first time

TDP sweeps Guntur district in general elections with Lokesh securing Mangalagiri seat by a huge majority.

The Telugu Desam Party (TDP) secured all Assembly seats in the Guntur district, as the general election results were declared on June 4 (Tuesday). Party general secretary Nara Lokesh, was elected from the Mangalagiri Assembly constituency with a thumping majority for the first time.

Mr. Lokesh, son of TDP supremo N. Chandrababu Naidu, polled 1,677,10 votes with a majority of 91,413 over his opponent M. Lavanya of the YSR Congress Party (YSRCP). Interestingly, he lost in the same constituency by around 5,300 vote margin in 2019.

Tenali Sravan Kumar won the Tadikonda (SC) Assembly seat with a margin of 39,606 against former Minister and YSRCP leader Mekathoti Sucharitha, where the Amaravati capital city is located and farmers have been agitating against the incumbent Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy’s three capitals concept.

In the Guntur West Assembly constituency, YSRCP’s Vidadala Rajini was defeated by TDP leader Galla Madhavi with a margin of 51,150 votes. TDP leader Mohammed Naseer Ahmed was elected from the Muslim-dominated Guntur East Assembly constituency with a majority of 31,962 against Noori Fathima Shaik of YSRCP, the daughter of incumbent MLA Mustafa.

Nadendla Manohar of the Jana Sena Party won with a margin of 48,112 votes in Tenali against incumbent MLA and YSRCP leader Annabathuni Sivakumar, who made headlines for slapping a voter in the queue line on polling day, May 13. In Ponnur, TDP leader Dhulipalla Narendra Kumar defeated YSRCP leader Ambati Murali Krishna with a margin of 32,915 votes.

TDP candidate Bhashyam Praveen from Pedakurapadu won by a margin of 21,089 votes against YSRCP sitting MLA Namburu Sankara Rao. Former Minister Nakka Ananda Babu was elected from Vemuru (SC) Assembly constituency with a 22,021 vote majority against Varikuti Ashok Babu of YSRCP.

TDP’s Vegasana Narendra Varma Raju defeated YSRCP’s Kona Raghupathi with a margin of 27,268 votes in the Bapatla Assembly constituency. Retired IAS officer Burla Ramanjaneyulu of TDP defeated Balasani Kiran Kumar of YSRCP with a margin of 42,015 votes.