Chief minister K Chandrashekar Rao is leading the fight for his party
Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) as he fights incumbency to retain power
in the 119-member house.
KCR is up against Congress-led People’s Front that also includes Chandrababu Naidu’s TDP, state activist leader Kodandaram’s TJS and CPI, even as BJP threatens to make it a triangular contest.
Asaduddin Owaisi-led All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen is the other major contender in the polls claiming the support of the around 12% Muslim population in the state.
Around 67.5% of the 2.8 crore electorate exercised the franchise on Dec 07,2018
As many as 1,821 candidates are contesting the elections and hope to get into the 119-member house.
A large number of people, including national badminton player Jwala Gutta, claimed that their names had been removed from the voters list and so, were unable to exercise their franchise.
Although campaigning focussed on local and development issues, it has been bitter with personalised attacks by leaders of various parties, who relied on emotional issues too to sway voters.
While Rao has attacked the Congress alliance, claiming that rulers from Andhra will return, Chandrababu Naidu clarified that he wouldn’t rule Telangana.
The assembly was dissolved in September, more than 10 months before it had to complete its term.
Going by the trends, TRS is likely to get a three-fourths majority in the 119 member assembly
It is a huge mandate for the party, which won 63 seats, just three seats more than the absolute majority, in 2014. That year, the strong Telangana sentiment prevailed.For People’s Front, or the grand alliance of four opposition parties comprising the Congress, the Telugu Desam Party, the CPI and fledgling Telangana Jana Sena, the election results have come as a big shock
KCR -- as the caretaker chief minister is popularly known – launched TRS in 2001 and sustained the movement for Telangana statehood for 13 long years, emerging as a symbol of Telangana pride and self-respect. In the last four and a half years of his rule, he established his own brand in the state, which nobody could erase. Brand KCR helped script the 2018 victory
KCR --
fundamentally relied on the provision of direct assistance to a
large section of the citizenry in the form of welfare schemes. He also
recognised that aspirations had changed, and that to make lives
comfortable and meaningful, people needed paisa, shaadi, makaan and
paani (money, marriages, homes and water).
KCR is up against Congress-led People’s Front that also includes Chandrababu Naidu’s TDP, state activist leader Kodandaram’s TJS and CPI, even as BJP threatens to make it a triangular contest.
Asaduddin Owaisi-led All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen is the other major contender in the polls claiming the support of the around 12% Muslim population in the state.
Around 67.5% of the 2.8 crore electorate exercised the franchise on Dec 07,2018
As many as 1,821 candidates are contesting the elections and hope to get into the 119-member house.
A large number of people, including national badminton player Jwala Gutta, claimed that their names had been removed from the voters list and so, were unable to exercise their franchise.
Although campaigning focussed on local and development issues, it has been bitter with personalised attacks by leaders of various parties, who relied on emotional issues too to sway voters.
While Rao has attacked the Congress alliance, claiming that rulers from Andhra will return, Chandrababu Naidu clarified that he wouldn’t rule Telangana.
The assembly was dissolved in September, more than 10 months before it had to complete its term.
Going by the trends, TRS is likely to get a three-fourths majority in the 119 member assembly
It is a huge mandate for the party, which won 63 seats, just three seats more than the absolute majority, in 2014. That year, the strong Telangana sentiment prevailed.For People’s Front, or the grand alliance of four opposition parties comprising the Congress, the Telugu Desam Party, the CPI and fledgling Telangana Jana Sena, the election results have come as a big shock
KCR -- as the caretaker chief minister is popularly known – launched TRS in 2001 and sustained the movement for Telangana statehood for 13 long years, emerging as a symbol of Telangana pride and self-respect. In the last four and a half years of his rule, he established his own brand in the state, which nobody could erase. Brand KCR helped script the 2018 victory
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