HYDERABAD: Albeit reluctant, he joined the fray and tasted victory the first time. And five years later, he now scored a more confident and convincing win.
For Secunderbad Lok Sabha seat, Anjan Kumar Yadav of Congress who handed an unexpected defeat to BJP’s Bandaru Dattatreya in the 2004 performed an encore this time beating the old rival with a rather impressive score. If the victory margin for Mr. Yadav last time was 68,758, his celebrations turned out to be more joyous on Saturday with the margin turning out to be more than 1,64,124 votes.
Mr. Dattatreya who won the seat thrice in 1991, 1998 and 1999 was a Union Minister in the NDA government but the party’s State president hopes of taking an electoral revenge were dashed by the former chief of Congress city unit. Mr. Yadav overcame the opponent’s campaign that portrayed him as ‘non-performer’ and that the constituency did not get any development in last five year.
Others who were left behind in the race by the bearded Congress leader included Shravan Kumar of Praja Rajyam, Sudhish Rambotla of TDP and Saleem of the TRS. The good showing by the party in almost all the Assembly segments of the constituency except for Amberpet, appears to have contributed in the final outcome.
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