Lok Sabha Polls: Secunderabad, a Congress-BJP stronghold, set for a three-way contest as BJP aims for a hat-trick
Secunderabad, which has a history of a two-sided contest between BJP and Congress, is set to see a three-way contest with Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) fielding Padma Rao Goud, a former minister and a sitting BRS MLA.
Secunderabad has been under the control of either the BJP or Congress since 1957, except for a 10-year period starting from 1967 when M M Hashim from Telangana Praja Samithi won two consecutive terms. In the last twenty years, the voters in this area have switched their allegiance, giving two terms to Congress when the state was undivided and two terms to the BJP in the state of Telangana.
BJP's journey towards dominance began in the early 1980s when their candidate, Bandaru Dattatreya, now the Haryana governor, narrowly lost to Congress's T Anjaiah, a former Chief Minister of the undivided Andhra, by around 8,000 votes.
The tide turned in 1991 when Dattatreya defeated Congress’ M Anjan Kumar Yadav by a comfortable margin, marking the rise of BJP's influence in a landscape then dominated by Congress. This victory, the sole one for BJP out of the state’s 42 seats, laid the foundation for their enduring impact in Secunderabad.
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