Intellectual Jayaprakash Narayan fell short of 1,10,000 votes to secure his deposit and lost it. Far from being the front runner, JP just managed to beat YSRCP’s Dinesh Reddy and end up in 4th position in Malkajgiri Lok Sabha with 1,58,000 votes. 2,70,000 votes, which is 1/6 of total votes polled, are required to secure deposit in Malkajgiri. TDP’s Malla Reddy got 5,23,336 votes compared to TRS candidate’s 4,94,965 and won in a close contest by over 28,000 votes. JP was nowhere near the top candidates in any of the 7 assembly segments. JP’s unethical strategy to attract BJP votes for his own victory at the cost of LSP’s assembly contestants in 7 assembly segments of Malkajgiri Lok Sabha worked ...

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