<p>Hyderabad: Kamareddy, a bustling business centre, 120 km from Telangana's capital city of Hyderabad, had witnessed an interesting and epic electoral battle of sorts.</p>.<p>None other than BRS chief, K Chandrashekar Rao, and Telangana PCC chief, A Revanth Reddy, had locked horns with each other.</p>.KCR: The vanquished Telangana icon who missed a historic hat trick.<p>All the attention was on the Big Two. But, a candidate carved out a third corner in this fight, and defeated both KCR and Revanth. This dark horse is BJP candidate Venkata Ramana Reddy.</p>.<p>K Venkata Ramana Reddy won over KCR with a lead of more than 6,000 votes, while Revanth Reddy was pushed to third place.</p>.<p>Until the afternoon, Revanth had maintained a marginal lead over KCR and Venkata Ramana. KCR, however, had never witnessed a lead in any of the rounds. This came as a surprise because KCR has roots in Kamareddy as his maternal ancestors belong to Konapur in Kamareddy.</p><p>Revanth was always seen as an outsider by the locals.</p><p>Interestingly, Venkata Ramana has been nurturing the segment for more than a year. He is a popular face and known to be a 'people's man' and his name often came up for discussions in every nook and corner of Kamareddy.</p><p>For KCR, this was a big setback. The BRS chief had anyway fielded himself in another seat, Gajwel, as an insurance. That paid off, as KCR has retained Gajwel with a majority of 45,031 votes over his former top aide-turned-adversary, Eatala Rajender of the BJP.</p>
<p>Hyderabad: Kamareddy, a bustling business centre, 120 km from Telangana's capital city of Hyderabad, had witnessed an interesting and epic electoral battle of sorts.</p>.<p>None other than BRS chief, K Chandrashekar Rao, and Telangana PCC chief, A Revanth Reddy, had locked horns with each other.</p>.KCR: The vanquished Telangana icon who missed a historic hat trick.<p>All the attention was on the Big Two. But, a candidate carved out a third corner in this fight, and defeated both KCR and Revanth. This dark horse is BJP candidate Venkata Ramana Reddy.</p>.<p>K Venkata Ramana Reddy won over KCR with a lead of more than 6,000 votes, while Revanth Reddy was pushed to third place.</p>.<p>Until the afternoon, Revanth had maintained a marginal lead over KCR and Venkata Ramana. KCR, however, had never witnessed a lead in any of the rounds. This came as a surprise because KCR has roots in Kamareddy as his maternal ancestors belong to Konapur in Kamareddy.</p><p>Revanth was always seen as an outsider by the locals.</p><p>Interestingly, Venkata Ramana has been nurturing the segment for more than a year. He is a popular face and known to be a 'people's man' and his name often came up for discussions in every nook and corner of Kamareddy.</p><p>For KCR, this was a big setback. The BRS chief had anyway fielded himself in another seat, Gajwel, as an insurance. That paid off, as KCR has retained Gajwel with a majority of 45,031 votes over his former top aide-turned-adversary, Eatala Rajender of the BJP.</p>