MAJLIS E ITTEHADUL MUSLIMEEN PARTY WINS HYDERABAD PARLIAMENT SEAT & SEVEN MLAS

HYDERABAD: Voters in the State capital have summarily rejected the Grand Alliance (GA) comprising Telugu Desam, Telangana Rashtra Samiti and the Left parties by not sending any of their representatives to the State Assembly. The only saving grace for Telugu Desam, the main Opposition party, is that it managed to get five seats in the neighbouring Ranga Reddy district. That theelectorate did not get swayed over the promise of a separate Telangana state by the Grand Alliance was evident when the TRS candidates in five segments of Hyderabad district and four in Ranga Reddy district were t rounced totally. The CPI and CPI (M) which contested one seat each in Hyderabad district too did not get a favourable mandate. The AIMIM candidates won all the seven Assembly segments they contested in Hyderabad, while losing the electoral battle in Rajendranagar seat in Rangareddy. The Praja Rajyam which contested 14 seats in Hyderabad and 12 in Ranga Reddy failed to open its account and so did Lok Satta, which contested 12 seats in Hyderabad. Of the 14 seats contested in Ranga Reddy, the LS managed to get only Kukatpally, where its president Jayaprakash Narayan was in the fray. Interestingly, the Telugu Desam candidates in Hyderabad and Secunderabad Parliament constituencies too were rejected with Hyderabad re-electing Asaduddin Owaisi, president of the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM), an ‘unofficial’ ally of the Congress and Secunderabad returning the Congress nominee Anjan Kumar Yadav. Telugu Desam Party’s Zahed Ali Khan stood second in Hyderabad constituency, while BJP’s candidate and party’s State president Bandaru Dattatreya was no match to Congress. The other two newly created Lok Sabha seats in Ranga Reddy district – Chevella and Malkajgiri were bagged by the Congress nominees S. Jaipal Reddy and Sarvey Satyanarayana. Following is the tally of different parties in Hyderabad (15 Assembly segments) and Ranga Reddy (14 Assembly) districts: Hyderabad: Congress – 7, MIM – 7, BJP – 1. Ranga Reddy: Congress – 8 (including a Congress rebel candidate from Qutbullahpur), TDP-5, Lok Satta – 1. Record win for Asaduddin Owaisi By Special Correspondent Hyderabad: In the end it proved a walkover for Asaduddin Owaisi. The Majlis president retained the Hyderabad Parliamentary seat with effortless ease, proving the invincibility of his party. In spite of a no-holds-barred campaign by four party alliance of Mahakutami, Mr. Asaduddin won by a thumping majority of 1,10,768 votes defeating Siasat Editor and TDP candidate, Zahid Ali Khan. In fact he improved upon his 2004 victory margin by 10,623 votes. Mr. Asaduddin polled 2,93,532 votes as against 1,82,764 by Mr. Khan. Congress candidate, P. Laxman Rao Goud, came a poor third by polling 91,159 votes while the BJP’s Satish Agarwal got 74,015 votes. MIM puts up spectacular performance Special Correspondent MIM wrests newly created constituencies of Bahadurpura, Nampally and Malakpet Akbaruddin Owaisi does a hat-trick by winning the Chandrayangutta Assembly constituency Hyderabad: When other political parties faced major upsets, the Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen kept up its winning spree in the city. The party put up a spectacular performance winning all but one seat it contested. Majlis president, Asaduddin Owaisi, led the party’s impressive show by retaining the Hyderabad Parliament seat with a majority of 1,10,768 votes. In the Assembly election, the party romped home victorious from seven constituencies, increasing its tally in the State legislature from five to seven. While the Majlis triumph was never in doubt, the spirited fight given by TDP candidate and Siasat Editor, Zahid Ali Khan, with the support of left parties and the MBT caused jitters in the Majlis camp. At one stage in the bitter campaign, even the leadership was unsure how the party would fare. Though the Majlis candidates emerged victorious, the margin of victory of some sitting MLAs got reduced. The only seat Majlis lost was Rajendranagar where its candidate, Y. Muralidhar Reddy was defeated by T. Prakash Goud of TDP. The Majlis wrested the newly created constituencies of Bahadurpura, Nampally and Malakpet with Mohd. Moazam Khan, Mohd Virast Rasool Khan and Ahmed Bin Abdullah Balala winning. Akbaruddin Owaisi did a hat-trick by winning the Chandrayangutta Assembly constituency for the third time. Other sitting MLAs Syed Ahmed Pasha Quadri, Mumtaz Ahmed Khan and Mohd. Muqtada Khan retained their seats at Charminar, Yakutpura and Karwan respectively. Credit for the good performance of Majlis goes to Mr. Asaduddin who led the party from the front. The victory is all the more significant since it is the first general election the party won under his leadership after the death of his father, Sultan Salahuddin Owaisi. The strong fight put up by the ‘Mahakutami’ candidates had its effect in the old city. Though they did not win a single seat, they cut into the votes of Majlis. In Charminar Mr. Quadri won by just 10,695 votes as against 1,07,921 votes in 2004. Similarly, in Karwan Mr. Muqtada Khan’s margin of victory came down by 2952 votes. BJP bites the dust HYDERABAD: The hopes of the BJP to become a “decisive force” in the State were dashed with only two of its 269 candidates making it to the Assembly and none to the Lok Sabha. It had fielded candidates in 41 of the 42 Lok Sabha constituencies. The party’s poor show could be gauged by the fact that all the stalwarts—State president Bandaru Dattatreya, national secretary N. Indrasena Reddy, Baddam Bal Reddy, former Union Minister Ch.Vidyasagar Rao and K. Laxman—had to bite the dust. Mr. Dattatreya sought to make it to the Lok Sabha from Secunderabad constituency, while Mr.Reddy was fielded from Malkajgiri. BY TIMES OF INDIA Cong, MIM repeat success story 17 May 2009, 0346 hrs IST, TNN HYDERABAD: In a virtual repeat of 2004, the Congress and the MIM pulled it off in city constituencies while the TDP drew a blank. The BJP, which won a single seat then, also repeated its performance. However, in some constituencies in Ranga Reddy district, which fall under GHMC limits, there was solace for the TDP. The biggest upset in the city was for TDP’s T Srinivas Yadav who lost to Jayasudha of the Congress from the Secunderabad Assembly constituency with a margin of 4,395 votes. Former IAS officer-turned-politician,

Jayaprakash Narayan of the Lok Satta cruised to victory to make his debut in the Assembly from Kukatpally.

If the only saving grace for the TDP in the last election was that its candidate G Sayanna won for the third time from the Secunderabad cantonment, this time around, he was defeated by Congress candidate Dr P Shankar Rao.

It has been a rout even for the TRS as not a single candidate out of the five who contested won, though in the 2004 election, two candidates had been victorious.

In the core city comprising 15 assembly seats, the Congress and MIM won seven seats each. The other seat was won by G Kishan Reddy of the BJP from the Amberpet constituency. Of the 23 Assembly seats in Greater Hyderabad, Congress candidates won in 12, while seven went to MIM nominees.

Congress candidates won from Musheerabad, Goshamahal, Khairatabad, Secunderabad, Jubilee Hills, Sanathnagar, Secunderabad Cantonment, Uppal, L B Nagar, Malkajgiri, Serilingampally and Maheshwaram constituencies.

Interestingly, Congress rebel candidate K Srisailam Goud won from Qutubullapur Assembly as an independent against the Congress official candidate K M Pratap. While ministers M Mukesh Goud and P Sabita Indra Reddy got elected, another minister M D Fareeduddin lost from the Amberpet constituency.

Mukesh Goud won from Goshamahal constituency by a margin of 20,488 votes trouncing BJP nominee Prem Singh Rathore. Fareeduddin who contested from Amberpet constituency lost by a huge margin of 27,243 votes to sitting MLA G Kishan Reddy. Sabita Indra Reddy won with a margin of 7,843 votes from Maheshwaram trouncing TDP’s Teegala Krishna Reddy.

Former CBI director and TDP candidate from Khairatabad constituency K Vijayarama Rao lost by 13,858 votes to Greater Hyderabad Congress president and Congress nominee D Nagender.

The MIM won in all the segments in the Old City — Charminar, Chandrayangutta, Yakutpura, Bahadurpura and Karwan. It also pocketed the Malakpet seat. Most of the Old City areas were merged in the constituency after delimitation of the Assembly constituencies. Akbaruddin Owasi of the MIM won with a margin of 18,973 votes from the Chandrayangutta constituency, repeating his win.

In Karwan Assembly constituency BJP candidate Dewar Karunakar gave a tough fight to MIM candidate Mohd Murtaza Khan but the latter romped home with a majority of 19,283 votes. Congress candidate from Serilingampally Bhikshapathi Yadav wrested the seat with a majority of 1,330 votes.

The TDP nominee from Rajendranagar T Prakash Goud won with a margin of 7,405 votes over his Congress candidate Gnaneshwar. TDP nominees also got elected from the surrounding Ranga Reddy constituencies like Ibrahimpatnam, Parigi, Tandur and Chevella segments.

All the Lok Sabha seats in the city were secured by Congress and MIM nominees. Congress candidate from Chevella, Union minister S Jaipal Reddy won with a majority of 18,436. Anjan Kumar Yadav retained the Secunderabad seat while S Satyanarayana won the Malkajgiri seat. MIM’s Asaduddin Owaisi trounced Mahakutami candidate Zahid Ali Khan to retain the Hyderabad seat.

BY DECCAN CHRONICLE
Old is gold for MIM

Hyderabad May 16: The Telugu Desam has been wiped out from Hyderabad as Congress swept polls in the new city and Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) continued to hold sway in the old city.
Of the total 15 Assembly segments in Hyderabad district, the Congress and MIM won 7 each with BJP retaining its lone seat of Amberpet. Even the two Lok Sabha seats of Secunderabad and Hyderabad were won by the Congress and MIM respectively.

The TD-led Mahakutami’s claim of handing out MIM a defeat fizzled out with Mr Asaduddin Owaisi retaining the Hyderabad Lok Sabha seat by defeating journalist-politician Mr Zahid Ali Khan of TD.

The TD failed to win a single seat in the city. Even its heavyweights like sitting MLA, Mr Talasani Srinivas Yadav, from Secunderabad and three-time Legislator, Mr G. Sayanna, from Cantonment, failed to retain their seats. The TD city president, Mr K. Vijayarama Rao, also lost Khairatabad to a Congress candidate.

Voters in the city also rejected the Telangana sentiment as Telangana Rashtra Samithi drew a blank. Despite being part of Mahakutami, the TRS candidates, former minister, Mr Nayani Narasimha Reddy, Mr T. Padma Rao and Mr Mahmood Ali, lost to Congress candidates in city.
Praja Rajyam also failed to taste victory in any of the constituencies in the city.

The Left parties failed to open their account in the city. While the CPM lost from Karwan, the CPI from Bahadurpura. Both the seats were wrested by the MIM.

The result of Yakutpura and Secunderabad Cantonment Assembly constituencies have not been announced as there were technical issues with a few EVMs. However, it will be done soon as the winning margin of the MIM and Congress candidates from these constituencies is more than the voters in polling booths where EVMs failed.