Hyderabad: Once a suburb, Amberpet over the decades has metamorphosed into a bustling place replete with trade and educational institutions apart from residential growth.
Carved out of HimayathnagarAssembly constituency before the 2009 elections as per the Delimitation Act of 2002, Amberpet Assembly constituency predominantly comprises middle class colonies and basthis.
The neighbourhood areas include Nallakunta, Vidyanagar, Amberpet, Tilak Nagar, Bagh Amberpet, Golnaka, Nehru Nagar, Kacheguda, Nimboliadda, Shivam Road, BaghLingampally and Barkatpura among others.
The constituency consists of voters who are mostly migrants from other States and merchants. It has several commercial complexes, educational institutions and residences of prominent political leaders and senior bureaucrats and police officers.
The Civil Police Lines Special Armed Reserve (CPL-SAR) is also located here. It is one of 15 constituencies in Hyderabad district and part of the SecunderabadLokSabha constituency.
BJP senior leader and union Tourism Minister G.KishanReddy had represented the seat before KaleruVenkatesh of BRS wrested it from him. In the 2014 Assembly polls, KishanReddy won the Amberpet seat defeating TRS candidate A SudhakarReddy by a margin of 62,598 votes, while AIMIM candidate NaligantiSharathBabu was the third runner-up with 17,536 votes.
In the 2018 elections, KaleruVenkatesh won the seat with a margin of 1,016 votes against KishanReddy. Fielded by the BRS again, KaleruVenkatesh has hit the campaign mode early and registered an advantage with his active reach out in the constituency.
The goodwill that the BRS enjoys and the phenomenal growth of Hyderabad in last decade ensured by Chief Minister K.ChandrashekharRaoand IT Minister KTRamaRao have been adding to his campaign.