The Bhongir Lok Sabha constituency, at about 50 km from Telangana’s capital of Hyderabad, witnesses a clash of perceived wave of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the Centre and that of the Congress which occupied power in the State five months ago.
But popular symbols, such as the recently ousted Bharat Rashtra Samithi’s (BRS) car, and the long-established Communist Party of India (Marxist)‘s hammer, sickle and star, which has considerable cadres are also crucial contestants.
In 2019, the constituency witnessed a fierce contest between Congress’s Komatireddy Venkat Reddy and the then ruling Telangana Rashtra Samithi’s (now BRS) sitting parliamentarian Dr. Boora Narsaiah Goud, a surgeon, who was the party loyalist since the separate Telangana movement. Mr. Reddy managed to win by a vote margin of just over 5,200 against Dr. Goud.
