Emphatic win for Jana Sena Party in Pithapuram Municipality

Chairman-elect of Pithapuram Municipality Daanam Lazar Babu receiving the certificate of election in Pithapuram on Tuesday.

Daanam Lazar Babu on Tuesday scripted a historic victory with a majority of 9,235 votes against his rival YSRCP’s Pedapati Rajesh Kumar, claiming the Chairman seat of the Pithapuram Municipality in the constituency represented by Jana Sena Party president and Deputy Chief Minister K. Pawan Kalyan.

The JSP also registered emphatic victories in the election to the wards. Of the 33 wards that went to the polls, it won a whopping 19 seats, while the TDP bagged five and the BJP one.

The YSRCP, which suffered a severe drubbing, won only in one ward (No. 19), in which Kusi Sattibabu secured 576 votes. The election was unanimous in the three wards that were claimed by the Jana Sena Party — Kotteti Adilakshmi (Ward 15), Cherukuri Ganapathi (Ward 23) and Ch. V.V. Kumar (Ward 27).

In the 36 wards in the municipality, 21 women were elected to the municipal council and 11 of them were from the JSP.

As many as 10 Independent candidates who won were believed to be rebels — four each from the TDP and JSP, and two from the YSRCP.

All of them had a history of working for their party during the 2024 general elections and aspired to be in the fray in the municipal election on their party ticket However, they were forced to be rebel as they failed to get the seat.