BJP's G Kishan Reddy wins a second consecutive Lok Sabha term from Secunderabad

BJP's G Kishan Reddy beats Congress candidate Danam Nagender to win Telangana's Secunderabad constituency for the second consecutive term in the 2024 Lok Sabha election results declared on June 4.

Reddy won by 473,012 votes and a margin of over 49,944 votes. He managed to corner 45.15 percent vote share.

Overall, in Telangana, Congress won 8 out of 17 seats, while BJP won 8 and All India Majlis-E-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) won one seat.

Although traditionally a Congress turf and has a Muslim voter base of over 20 percent, the BJP bagged the Secunderabad constituency in the past two elections.

Reddy is also the party president in Telangana. In 2019, Reddy bagged about 42 percent share of the electorate, or 3.84 lakh votes, making this a possible second straight Lok Sabha win.

Danam Nagender of the Congress was taking on Reddy, while Kalvakuntla Chandrashekar Rao of the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) is also in the fray.

According to estimates by the News18 exit poll, out of the 17 parliamentary seats in Telangana, the BJP-led NDA was expected to win 7-10 seats, while 5-8 seats were expected to go to the Opposition INDIA bloc, leaving others with 3-5 seats.

Nagender had moved from the BRS to the Congress ahead of this election. He had served as an MLA from from Khairatabad during 2018 to 2023. After the shift in loyalty, the BRS had requested Legislative Assembly Speaker G Prasad Kumar to disqualify him.