Telangana Election Result Updates: KCR's TRS in Lead as Expected, BJP Close Second
KCR's TRS is in a strong lead at the moment gaining seven seat, but BJP have made a strong ground by gaining three seats. AIMIM and Congress are yet to open their account.
File photo of TRS chief K Chandrashekar Rao. (Twitter)
Telangana Election Result: Postal ballot counting has started across Telangana, a state that was formed in 2014 after the bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh. Going by the trends that were set in since formation, it is likely that K Chandrashekar Rao’s Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) will continue to dominate the Lok Sabha election results today. A strong showing will put KCR in the kingmaker role, a position he has been vying for against his rival and Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu. He has been trying to cobble up an anti-BJP, anti-Congress ‘federal front’, but has so far received lukewarm response from Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee and DMK chief MK Stalin.
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Top election result updates from Telangana:
Buoyed by its landslide victory in the Telangana Assembly elections last year and with opposition parties looking demoralised, the TRS and KCR had a clear edge in these elections.
According to exit polls, a ‘pink sweep’ in Telangana is very likely. A survey by News18-IPSOS gave the party 12-14 of the 17 seats. Both the Congress and the BJP will possibly win one to three seats each, with Asaduddin Owaisi’s All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) expected to win one.
Deserted by its MLAs, the Congress struggled to put up a strong fight against TRS while the the BJP's prospects always looked remote in the state. The Telugu Desam Party chose not to contest the Lok Sabha election here after the party’s dismal showing in the Telangana assembly elections.
In the snap assembly elections last year, KCR had won a massive mandate, winning 88 out of 119 seats, riding on the goodwill generated by the welfare scheme launched by him in the last four-and-half years. The Congress, despite cobbling up a four-party front, including the Telugu Desam Party (TDP), was relegated to a distant second position with 21 seats.
Going strictly by the assembly segments won by the TRS in December, it stands a good chance in 15 Lok Sabha seats. In comparison, the Congress won 21 assembly seats, which would add up to one Lok Sabha seat.
In the 2014 election results, the TRS had bagged 11 seats while the Congress won two and the TDP, the YSR Congress, the BJP and the MIM got one each.
Senior Congress leader and former union minister Renuka Chowdary carried the party's hopes in Khammam, while state unit president Uttam Kumar Reddy faced a tough battle in Nalgonda.
The CPI and CPI-M, which fought Assembly elections as a part of different alliances, had joined hands to field candidates in their former strongholds of Nalgonda and Khammam.
In Nizamabad, KCR's daughter K Kavitha, who sought re-election for a second consecutive term, was locked in a keen battle against Madhu Yashki Goud of the Congress and D. Aravind of the BJP. Around 200 farmers also entered the fray in this constituency to highlight their hardships.
The BJP replaced its lone outgoing MP and senior leader Bandaru Dattatreya with G. Kishan Reddy in Secunderabad, a seat which was held by either Congress or BJP in the past. While Congress has fielded its former MP Anjan Kumar Yadav, state minister T. Srinivas Yadav's son Sai Kiran Yadav is the TRS candidate.
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Follow all the live updates from the Lok Sabha election 2019 results here:
Top election result updates from Telangana:
Buoyed by its landslide victory in the Telangana Assembly elections last year and with opposition parties looking demoralised, the TRS and KCR had a clear edge in these elections.
According to exit polls, a ‘pink sweep’ in Telangana is very likely. A survey by News18-IPSOS gave the party 12-14 of the 17 seats. Both the Congress and the BJP will possibly win one to three seats each, with Asaduddin Owaisi’s All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) expected to win one.
Deserted by its MLAs, the Congress struggled to put up a strong fight against TRS while the the BJP's prospects always looked remote in the state. The Telugu Desam Party chose not to contest the Lok Sabha election here after the party’s dismal showing in the Telangana assembly elections.
In the snap assembly elections last year, KCR had won a massive mandate, winning 88 out of 119 seats, riding on the goodwill generated by the welfare scheme launched by him in the last four-and-half years. The Congress, despite cobbling up a four-party front, including the Telugu Desam Party (TDP), was relegated to a distant second position with 21 seats.
Going strictly by the assembly segments won by the TRS in December, it stands a good chance in 15 Lok Sabha seats. In comparison, the Congress won 21 assembly seats, which would add up to one Lok Sabha seat.
In the 2014 election results, the TRS had bagged 11 seats while the Congress won two and the TDP, the YSR Congress, the BJP and the MIM got one each.
Senior Congress leader and former union minister Renuka Chowdary carried the party's hopes in Khammam, while state unit president Uttam Kumar Reddy faced a tough battle in Nalgonda.
The CPI and CPI-M, which fought Assembly elections as a part of different alliances, had joined hands to field candidates in their former strongholds of Nalgonda and Khammam.
In Nizamabad, KCR's daughter K Kavitha, who sought re-election for a second consecutive term, was locked in a keen battle against Madhu Yashki Goud of the Congress and D. Aravind of the BJP. Around 200 farmers also entered the fray in this constituency to highlight their hardships.
The BJP replaced its lone outgoing MP and senior leader Bandaru Dattatreya with G. Kishan Reddy in Secunderabad, a seat which was held by either Congress or BJP in the past. While Congress has fielded its former MP Anjan Kumar Yadav, state minister T. Srinivas Yadav's son Sai Kiran Yadav is the TRS candidate.
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