For Telangana Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy, also Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC) president, it is important to win maximum or all the 17 Lok Sabha (LS) constituencies in the State to see his party in power at the Centre. It is even more crucial and rather prestigious for him to win the Mahbubnagar LS seat since his Assembly constituency Kodangal, from which he won as a MLA recently and went on to become CM, comes under it in addition to six other constituencies.
It should be a cakewalk for Congress to capture the Mahbubnagar LS seat with Congress candidates having emerged victorious in all seven Assembly seats in the elections held less than five months ago. Curiously, Congress nominee Ch. Vamshichand Reddy is facing a serious challenge from BJP candidate and its national vice-president D. K. Aruna with reports saying that some sections of voters are tilting towards BJP due to various factors, including the ‘Modi wave’.
On the other hand, TRS is leaving no stone unturned to stage a comeback from the setback it suffered in the 2023 Assembly elections. Its nominee Manne Srinivas Reddy, present MP from the seat, won the 2019 election by securing 41.78% of votes leaving behind D. K. Aruna 33.88% and Vamshichand Reddy with 19.67%.
