Hyderabad:
The YSR Congress registered a resounding victory in the by-election for the Nellore Lok Sabha constituency with Mekapati Rajamohan Reddy trouncing Congress' T Subbarami Reddy by a massive margin of 2.91 lakh votes on Friday.
Mekapati, who quit the Congress and his Lok Sabha membership early this year to join the YSR Congress, secured 5,35,436 votes while Subbarami Reddy, a former Union minister of state, received 2,43,691 votes.
Telugu Desam Party's Vanteru Venugopal Reddy secured 1,54,103 votes.
Mekapati won the Nellore Lok Sabha seat, which was de-reserved in the delimitation process in 2009, by a margin of 54,993 votes.