Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) has taken a lead of 1,034 votes on the finish of the fourth spherical of counting of votes in Munugode Meeting by-election.

The preliminary tendencies present that the constituency is witnessing an in depth contest between the ruling TRS and the opposition BJP because the counting of votes was taken up on Sunday.

TRS candidate Okay. Prabhakar Reddy took the lead from the very first spherical. Prabhakar Reddy has secured 6,418 votes whereas BJP’s Komatireddy Rajagopal Reddy polled 5,126 votes. Congress get together’s Palvai Sravanthi was third with 2,100 votes.

Within the second spherical, BJP took the lead of 841 votes. It was polled 8,622 votes whereas TRS garnered 7,781 votes. Congress was once more a distant third with 1,537 votes. Nonetheless, TRS took a cumulative lead of 451 votes.

The BJP was polled extra votes than TRS within the third spherical however within the fourth TRS regained the lead and on the finish of this spherical, the ruling get together was forward by 1,034 votes.

There will probably be a complete 15 rounds of counting. The counting of votes started at 8 a.m. on Sunday amid tight safety. The ballot officers first took up counting of postal ballots.

A voter turnout of 93.13 per cent was recorded within the bitterly contested bypoll on Thursday. This surpassed 91.31 per cent polling recorded within the constituency in 2018 polls.

Out of a complete 2,41,805 citizens, 2,25,192 solid their votes. This doesn’t embody the postal ballots.

Although there have been a complete of 47 candidates within the fray, the principle contest was amongst three main gamers – TRS, BJP and Congress.

The bypoll was necessitated after sitting MLA Komatireddy Rajagopal Reddy resigned from the Congress to affix the BJP in August. This time he contested on the BJP ticket.

The TRS fielded former MLA Kusukuntla Prabhakar Reddy, who had misplaced to Rajagopal Reddy in 2018.

The Congress fielded Palvai Sravanthi Reddy, daughter of former MP Palvai Goverdhan Reddy.