Telangana Election Results 2018: Will K Chandrasekhar Rao’s TRS retain power? Counting begins

Telangana Election Results: Telangana, the youngest state of India, went to polls on December 7 to elect its second assembly. Photo: AP

The Election Commission of India will start counting of votes for Telangana election results at 8 am today. The exit poll results have predicted landslide victory of ruling party TRS in Telangana Assembly Elections 2018. Telangana, the youngest state of India, went to polls on December 7 to elect its second assembly. This is the first election in Telangana after the state was created in 2014. Around 70 per cent people exercised their voting rights in Telangana Assembly Elections, according to the Election Commission.

Telangana was supposed to have its second election in May, 2019. However, the chief minister of the state, K Chandrasekhar Rao, dissolved the assembly in September 2018 and announced for early election.

Major political parties:

KCR led Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS), Telugu Desam Party (TDP), Congress, Telangana Jana Samithi, Communist Party of India, All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) and BJP — are the major political parties contesting for the 119 seats in Telanagana seats. Congress, TDP, TJS and CPI have formed a grand alliance ‘Praja Kutami’ to defeat K Chandrasekhar Rao’s TRS. BJP is contesting alone. A total of 1,821 candidates participated in the poll fray.

Key candidates:

The chief minister of Telangana, K Chandrasekhar Rao is contesting from Gajwel seat. Congress candidate Vanteru Pratap Reddy and BJP’s Akula Vijaya are up against KCR.

KT Rama Rao is fighting against Congress’ KK Mahender Reddy and BJP’s N Narsa Goud for Sirsilla assembly seat.

Patnam Narender Reddy of the TRS and A Revanth Reddy of Congress are in the fray from Kodangal.

Who is going to rule Telangana? Times Now-CNX exit poll has given 66 seats to TRS while Congress-TDP alliance has given 37 seats.

According to the exit poll by India Today-Axis My India, TRS is likely to register 7-91 seats while Congress alliance may get 21-33 seats. BJP may get 07 seats.

C Voter exit poll predicts that TRS to retain the state with 48-60 seats.

Congress - TDP grand alliance or K Chandrasekhar Rao’s TRS — who will win the Telangana Assembly Elections 2018?

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— In the 2014 elections, TRS had won 63 seats, the Congress 21, the TDP 15 and the BJP won 5 seats.

—TRS to once again reach out to regional parties to forge unity

“After formation of the government in Telangana, the TRS will once again broach the concept of a federal front to all regional parties”, the deputy floor leader of the party in the Lok Sabha B Vinod Kumar told ahead of the result.

—KC Chandrasekhar Rao is contesting from Gajwel seat

Telangana’s caretaker chief minister KC Chandrasekhar Rao is contesting the assembly election from Gajwel seat in Siddipet district

— ‘Will play a vital role in formation of next govt: BJP

The BJP has claimed it would play a ‘vital role’ in the formation of the next government in Telangana.

“I strongly feel that ‘Prajakutami’ (People’s Front) will come to power,” Telangana Jana Samiti (TJS) president Prof. M Kodandaram told ahead of counting.

Congress leaders have claimed that the alliance would win 75 to 80 seats in the 119-member Assembly, which went to the polls on December 7.

— TRS will form the next government in Telangana on its own strength: AIMIM President

AIMIM President Asaduddin Owaisi Monday said TRS will form the next government in Telangana on its own strength and his party will stand by it and its chief K Chandrasekhar Rao. AIMIM contested eight seats in the December 7 Assembly elections.

— Visuals from Congress Office in Hyderabad