AP: Jana Sena chief Pawan Kalyan wins Pithapuram by 70,279 votes

Amaravati: Pithapuram, the AP assembly constituency, which gathered much hype in the present election saw a high-stake battle between JSP chief Pawan Kalyan and Vanga Geetha Viswanath of YSRCP.

Pawan was expected to secure a majority of over one lakh votes. On expected lines, Pawan Kalyan, who fought the elections with an alliance with BJP and TDP, was able to win from Pithapuram, with a majority of 70,279 votes against his nearest opponent Vanga Geetha Viswanath of YSRCP.

While Pawan Kalyan received 1,39,394 votes, Geetha stood second with 64,115 votes. incidentally, Pawan Kalyan defeated Geetha, who had won as Pithapuram on Praja Rajyam Party (PRAP) ticket in 2009, when the party was founded by Pawan’s elder brother and former MP K Chiranjeevi.

Actor Ram Charan and Allu Arjun too congratulated their uncle Pawan Kalyan for his ‘phenomenal’ win. Pawan Kalyan’s ex-wife Renu Desai too posted a cryptic post on Instagram, saying she was “So happy for Aadya and Akira and i hope the AP state people benefit from this verdict.”

Pawan Kalyan’ wife Anna Lezhneva and their son Akira Nandan thanked the supporters of Jana Sena who congratulated the family. Anna took out Pawan’s ‘aarthi’ and applied ‘kumkum’ on his forehead. With folded hands she thanked Pawan’s supporter and got emotional in a video which has now gone viral. Pawan’s mother Anjana Devi sent a video message congratulating her son, and saying that she knows how hard her son worked for success in politics, and felt that god has given good results for his hard work.

Pithapuram assembly constituency results 2024

It can be recalled that Pawan Kalyan had a disastrous election year in 2019, when he had lost from the two assembly constituencies from where he had contested. In 2019 assembly elections, he lost from Gajuwaka constituency in Visakhapatnam district to YSRCP candidate T Nagireddy with a margin of around16,000 votes. In the same elections, he also lost from Bhimavaram assembly constituency to YSRCP candidate Grandhi Srinivas by a margin of around 8,000 votes. That was Pawan Kalyan’s electoral debut after he launched Jana Sena Party.

In 2019 assembly elections, JSP candidate Makineedi Seshu Kumar could secure only the third place, by getting 28,011 votes in Pithapuram. Her vote share was 15 %.

Pithapuram assembly constituency results 2019

It is worth mentioning that in 2014 assembly elections, SVSN Verma, an independent candidate had won from Pithapuram by securing 97,511 votes (57.59 % vote share).

Pithapuram assembly constituency results 2014