Surprise victory: BJP’s Venkat Ramana Reddy defeats KCR, Revanth in Kamareddy
An unpopular opinion is that he was originally a Congressman and was close to the late chief minister YS Rajashekara Reddy
By Coreena Suares Published on 3 Dec 2023 8:36 PM IST
Telangana: Katipally Venkat Ramana Reddy turned out to be the star of the 2023 Telangana State Assembly election by defeating giant leader K Chandrashekar Rao from the BRS and TPCC president A Revanth Reddy in Kamareddy.
The man is being hailed across the country for putting up a fight against two prominent political leaders.
The local factor
What worked in his favour is that Katipally Venkat Ramana Rao is more local than KCR and Revanth Reddy in Kamareddy. He was instrumental in supporting the voice of Dwaraka women and helping them get pensions. Ramana Reddy also spearheaded a campaign against the Kamareddy master plan alleging large-scale land encroachments by the BRS leaders in Kamareddy.
In the last year, Ramana Reddy worked on building community halls, constructing temples, organising religious rallies and financially supporting the Hindu community in Kamareddy.
Connection to Congress
An unpopular opinion is that he was originally a Congressman and was close to the late chief minister YS Rajashekara Reddy.
Sources claim that he is also close to the current Andhra Pradesh chief minister Jagan Mohan Reddy. Originally, a Congressman who moved to the BJP recently, Ramana Reddy has a huge following and, as the election result shows, the BJP needs him more than what he needs from the BJP.
The BJP party recorded an impressive increase in its MLA candidates in the Telangana Election Results 2023; from one MLA in 2018 to nine elected public representatives five years later. The count not just increases the party’s MLAs in the State Assembly but also the saffron party’s vote bank in the state. However, what is more glaring is that four of its star MLAs an
