Telangana Assembly Election 2023: Adilabad is one of the 119 constituencies of the Telangana Legislative Assembly. Located in Telangana’s Adilabad district, the Adilabad Assembly Constituency falls under the Adilabad Lok Sabha constituency along with 6 other assembly constituencies. There are two Assembly constituencies in Adilabad.
Adilabad Assembly Constituency has been a stronghold of the ruling Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) with incumbent BRS MLA Jogu Ramanna winning four consecutive terms. Ramanna had won the seat first on a Telugu Desam Party (TDP) ticket in the 2009 Telangana Assembly Elections before switching to the BRS and winning another three consecutive terms from Adilabad since 2012 by-polls.
In 2018 Telangana Assembly Elections, Jogu Ramanna secured a fourth consecutive term from Adilabad Assembly constituency by defeating his closest rival, BJP’s Payal Shanker, by a hefty margin of 26,606 votes.
BRS: Jogu Ramanna
BJP: Payal Shankar
Congress: Kandi Srinivas Reddy
Telangana is set to witness a triangular contest between the ruling BRS, Congress, and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) as the opposition parties make an all-out effort to oust Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao (KCR) and his BRS from power. KCR has served as the chief minister of Telangana for two successive terms since 2018.
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