Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) candidate for Adilabad (ST) Lok Sabha seat G. Nagesh would have won by a majority of 3 lakh votes if the MLAs in the seven Assembly segments could achieve the number of votes which they promised Chief Minister and party president K. Chandrashekhar Rao before the election. Only Sirpur legislator Koneru Konappa managed to get a lead of 13,382 votes for him over Congress candidate Ramesh Rathod, and Asifabad MLA Athram Sakku, who had actually won on a Congress ticket, managed to get a slender lead of 2,727 votes for the TRS candidate over Bharatiya Janata Party's Soyam Bapu Rao.
The ruling party conceded leads in the remaining five segments, four of them to BJP and one to Congress, its performance being dismal, in a way, in Nirmal and Adilabad segments where the campaign was led by Forest Minister A. Indrakaran Reddy and former Forest Minister Jogu Ramanna respectively. While the latter had sweated it out apparently in anticipation of a Cabinet berth, the former struggled to keep up the faith imposed in him by the party president by handing him over the responsibility of achieving a win for Mr. Nagesh.