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Secunderabad Lok Sabha constituency: Secunderabad, one of the 17 Lok Sabha constituencies in Telangana, is a twin city of Hyderabad. Historically, the constituency has been a stronghold of the Congress party, having won 12 out of 15 Lok Sabha elections and one by-election.
However, in the 2019 general elections, the Secunderabad constituency saw a significant shift in power, with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) emerging victorious with a majority of 282,186 votes, with a turnout of 44.84%.
In the upcoming 2024 general elections, the Secunderabad constituency is expected to witness a fierce electoral battle between the BJP’s G. Kishan Reddy, the Congress’s Danam Nagender, and the Bharat Rashtra Samithi’s (BRS) T. Padma Rao Goud.
Secunderabad, along with the rest of the constituencies in Telangana, is scheduled to go to the polls on May 13, during the fourth phase of the Lok Sabha elections due to the limited number of seats.
In addition to being a sitting MP of Secunderabad, G. Kishan Reddy is also serving as Minister of State for Home Affairs, Government of India, and Party State President of the BJP in Telangana.
Rewinding to the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, Reddy contested from the Secunderabad constituency and emerged as the winner, receiving 60.87% of the total votes against his closest competitor, Mukesh Dhangar of the INC, who received only 2.55% of the votes.
This victory further solidified the BJP’s position in the Secunderabad constituency, and now he is contesting again to retain his seat in the upcoming 2024 Lok Sabha elections.
Danam Nagender is a seasoned politician with a long association with the Congress party, having been elected as a Congress MLA from the Asifnagar constituency from 1994 to 2014. However, in 2018, Nagender joined the Bharat Rashtra Samiti (BRS) and won as an MLA in 2018 and 2023 from the Khairatabad constituency. Ahead of the Lok Sabha 2024 elections, Nagender joined the Congress party in the presence of Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy and AICC Telangana in-charge Deepa Dasmunsi are contesting as a Parliament member from Secunderabad against Union Minister G. Kishan Reddy.
T. Padma Rao Goud began his political career as a Municipal Councillor in the Hyderabad Municipal Corporation and won the 2004 Assembly Election from the Secunderabad Assembly, followed by making a comeback in the 2014 Telangana Assembly Election and was re-elected from the Secunderabad Assembly constituency.
Goud was also inducted into the Cabinet on June 2, 2014, and served as the Excise and Prohibition, Sports, and Youth Services Minister of Telangana until 2018 and then became the Deputy Speaker of the Telangana Legislative Assembly. Ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, Goud will be contesting from the Bharat Rashtra Samiti (BRS) against Union Minister G. Kishan Reddy and Congress’s Danam Nagender.
