Vote counting started at 8:00 am on Sunday. The constituency witnesses the battle among mainly three candidates, ie BRS leader KTR, Congress’ Kondam Karuna Mahender Reddy, and BJP’s Gogula Rani Rudrama.
In Sirisilla, KTR is in the ring from BRS, while KK Mahender Reddy from Congress and Gogula Rani Rudrama from BJP are contesting. While KTR is behind in the first two rounds but when the third round started, he took the lead.
According to the latest report, Telangana Chief Minister KCR’s son KTR is currently leading in Sirisilla constituency by over 10,000 votes.
BRS leader and Minister for Municipal Administration and Information Technology Kalvakuntla Taraka Rama Rao- KTR has represented this constituency four times in 2009, 2010, 2014 and 2018 respectively. Sirisilla constituencies have six mandals namely Sirisilla, Ellareddypet, Gambhiraopet, Mustabad, Thangalapally and Veernapally.
In the previous assembly elections, KTR won from this seat. He has contested the election from the same seat again.
In 2018, KTR had emerged victorious with a vote count of 125213 votes and a margin of 89009 votes.