Huzurnagar by-poll: TRS, Congress locked in neck-and-neck fight

Hyderabad: It’s likely to be neck-and-neck fight in Monday’s bye-election to Huzurnagar Assembly constituency, with ruling Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) keen to wrest it from Congress while the opposition party is determined to continue its winning streak.
TRS and Congress candidates are locked in a direct fight though the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Telugu Desam Party (TDP) candidates are also hoping to pull it off.
First bypolls since Lok Sabha polls, it is expected to be an acid test for the ruling party as it is being held amid the ongoing indefinite strike by employees of state-owned Telangana State Road Transport Corporation (TSRTC), which has brought the opposition parties and other anti-TRS forces together.
Little over 2.36 lakh voters, nearly half of them women, will decide the political fortunes of 28 candidates including 15 Independents.
Authorities have set up 302 polling centres in the constituency located in Suryapet district, once considered a Congress stronghold.
Huzurnagar came into existence as a result of delimitation of constituencies in 2009. Congress party’s N. Uttam Kumar Reddy won the seat in successive elections in 2009, 2014 and 2018.