Nalgonda: TRS candidate Nomula Bhagat Kumar was leading by a comfortable margin of 9,222 votes over his nearest Congress rival K Jana Reddy at the end of 14 rounds of counting in the by-election to Nagarjuna Sagar Assembly constituency.
The BJP candidate is placed a distant third. There are still 10 more rounds of counting to go.
The counting of votes began at 8 am on Friday. Earlier, officials shifted the EVMs to the counting halls from the strong rooms in Telangana State Warehousing Corporation at Arjala Bavai.
The bypoll was necessitated by the death of TRS MLS Nomula Narasimaiah in December last.
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