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TDP wrests control of Hyderabad Municipal Corporation

Syed Amin Jafri in Hyderabad

The Telugu Desam Party has wrested control of the municipal corporations of Hyderabad, Rajahmundry and Tirupati, besides the chairman's post in Markapur municipality.

TDP candidate Teegala Krishna Reddy won the mayor's post in Hyderabad defeating his Majlis-e-Ittehadul-Muslimeen rival, Mir Zulfeqar Ali, by a slender margin of 16,000 votes. Congress nominee D Nagender finished a poor third in the mayoral race.

Counting of votes in the direct election for mayor, which was taken up on Thursday morning, continued till Friday morning, since a total of 57 candidates were in the fray for the post and as many as 1,178,431 votes were polled in the election.

Elsewhere in the state, TDP candidate M S Chakravarthy won the mayor's post in Rajahmundry Municipal Corporation.

TDP nominee K Shankar Reddy wrested the chairman's post in Tirupati municipality.

In the bypoll for chairman's post in Markapur municipality, TDP candidate Jakka Lakshmi Prakash Rao scored a victory.

In all these places, the TDP nominees trounced their Congress rivals.

TDP's poll ally Bharatiya Janata Party's candidate Baddam Subhash Reddy bagged chairman's post in the newly formed Gaddiannaram municipality in a close fight with Congress.

On the other hand, the Congress managed to get only one municipality - Hindupur -- with its nominee for chairman's post Subhan Seth trouncing his TDP rival.

In the Hyderabad municipal election, the MIM emerged as the single largest party bagging 36 seats out of the 99 seats.

TDP and Congress bagged 21 councillor seats each and the BJP got 15 councillor seats.

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