Overview

• TDP candidate Latha Reddy won the Pulivendula ZPTC seat by more than 6,000 votes while the YSR Congress candidate lost his deposit, and TDP also captured the Ontimitta seat.
• The State Election Commission ordered targeted re-polls at two booths following complaints but YSR Congress boycotted the exercise as inadequate.
• The Andhra Pradesh High Court dismissed the YSR Congress petition for wider repolls, affirming the commission’s authority over election remedies.
• YSR Congress alleges large-scale malpractices including outsider voting and police collusion, and says its dozens of formal complaints to the commission went unanswered.
• TDP leaders, led by Nara Lokesh, celebrated what they called the first genuinely competitive local elections in Pulivendula in three decades.