TRS president K Chandrasekhar Rao speaking at media conference after his party's victory in the 2014 Lok Sabha and Assembly election in Telangana at TRS Bhavan in Hyderabad on Friday.
HYDERABAD: The Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) will form the first government in the newly carved out State with the party expected to elect its chief K Chandrasekhara Rao as the chief ministerial candidate Saturday at a meeting of the legislature party. The high-pitched campaign by KCR has worked for the TRS with the party crossing the crucial half-way mark required for forming the government, leaving the Congress way behind, and without scope for machinations post-results. The TRS secured 63 out of the 119 seats at stake in Telangana.
Apart from a clean sweep of north Telangana districts, the TRS secured a good number of seats in districts of south Telangana such as Mahbubnagar and Nalgonda. Besides GHMC, Khammam was the only district where the regional party failed to make a big impact, winning just one seat.
Interestingly, the TDP-BJP combine fared as well as the Congress, which could not translate into electoral benefit its decision to carve out a separate State. With substantial gains in the Hyderabad Metropolitan Area and pockets of Telangana, the TDP-BJP combine notched up 20 seats, just one less than the Congress.
If several fresh faces put up by the TRS managed to emerge victorious, Congress bigwigs, including several ministers in the outgoing government, faced a humiliating defeat. TPCC chief Ponnala Lakshmaiah, former deputy CM D Raja Narasimha, former PCC president D Srinivas, former speaker KR Suresh Reddy, former ministers D Sridhar Babu, Sudarshan Reddy, Danam Nagender and Mukesh Gowd were among those who had to bite the dust.
The TRS performance in Lok Sabha was far more impressive than the Assembly. Of the 17 LS seats, the party won as many as 11 with almost all the victorious candidates romping home with huge margins.
The Congress managed to win just two seats with a majority of sitting MPs tasting defeat, including such stalwarts as S Jaipal Reddy. The TDP, BJP, YSRC and MIM won one seat each. If the YSRC wrested the Khammam LS seat from the TDP, the latter picked up Malkajgiri held by the Congress. Prominent among the LS winners include KCR himself from Medak and his daughter Kavitha from Nizamabad.
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