Journalist wins big

TV journalist Chanti Kranthi Kiran was rewarded with a party ticket from Andole constituency. KCR dropped sitting MLA Babu Mohan, who subsequently defected to the BJP. Many believed that Kranthi would lose against Congress stalwart Damodar Raj Narasimha, but to everybody’s surprise, he recorded a victory with a margin of over 21,000 votes.