Kamareddy, Telangana Election Results 2023 LIVE: Will KCR establish his ‘Janma Bhumi as Karma Bhumi’?

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Telangana Assembly today i.e. on 3 December. The high-stakes Telangana Assembly is witnessing a triangular contest involving the ruling Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) (then Telangana Rashtra Samithi), the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), and the Congress.

This time, Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) president and Telangana chief minister K Chandrashekar Rao contested from two seats: his original seat, Gajwel, and the Kamareddy. With KCR contesting from Kamareddy, his native village Konapur, with its focus on development has come into prominence. The voting turnout in the constituency was 71 percent.

KCR was born on February 17, 1954 in his maternal parent's house located in Konapur village in Bibipet mandal of Kamareddy district. The two-storeyed house was partially submerged due to construction of the Upper Manair Dam in 1950. The house that stands tall in the village was left unused and unkept after KCR's maternal grandparents passed away and his parents shifted to Chintamadaka village in erstwhile Medak district when he was an infant, as reported by PTI. This old house, which is now in a dilapidated condition, according to locals, was in the past used as a shelter by some naxals but presently has shrubs growing inside and snakes have taken refuge, as reported by news agency PTI.

Returning to his birthplace after 69 years, KCR hopes to establish his 'janma bhumi as karma bhumi'. There are about 400 houses in the village and locals also take pride in what KCR has done for the development of the village. Ahead of the polling, Basvaraja, son of the current sarpanch had told PTI, "I was told in my childhood that KCR was born in this house.