This story is from October 12, 2020

Kavitha Kalvakuntla wins Nizamabad MLC byelection

TRS candidate Kavitha Kalvakuntla on Monday won the Nizamabad local bodies MLC election with a total of 728 out of 823 votes.
Kavitha Kalvakuntla wins Nizamabad MLC byelection
Kavitha Kalvakuntla
HYDERABAD: TRS candidate Kavitha Kalvakuntla on Monday won the Nizamabad local bodies MLC byelection with a total of 728 out of 823 votes.
The BJP got 56 votes and the Congress polled 29 votes. There were 10 invalid votes.
Kavitha Kalvakuntla’s victory was clear in the first round of counting, when she got 532 out of 600 votes. BJP candidate P Laxminarayana and Congress candidate B Subhash Reddy were left far behind.
The former Nizamabad MP’s victory, however, was a foregone conclusion as the party had enough votes among the elected representatives electorate. The electorate consisted of sarpanches, ward members, municipal councillors, MPTC and ZPTC members and MLAs and MLCs.
In the 2019 parliament elections, Kavitha, who was a sitting MP from Nizamabad, lost in the poll to BJP nominee D Arvind. With this election, Kavitha has come back to playing a more active role in politics.
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