Telangana election results: Public spending helped TRS romp back to power

The TRS will hike reservation for minorities from the current 7 % to 12 % in education and jobs.

Telengana Assembly Election Results: It is not hard to work out why the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) romped back to power in the country’s youngest state — the main reason is public spending.

According to the results at the time of going to print, Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao’s TRS had won 60 seats in the 118-seat Assembly, and were leading in 28 more. Congress had won 13 and was leading in six, and the Bharatiya Janata Party had won one seat.

Rao, popularly known as KCR, dedicated the victory to the people of the state, and said he was confident of the state playing a bigger role at the national level. “We dedicate this victory to the people of Telangana,” he said, adding: “We are going to play a very crucial role in the national politics.” Experts, however, said the people of Telangana had rewarded KCR for his publicspending.|Assembly Election Results 2018

From the Rythu Bandhu scheme, which provides farmers an annual income of Rs8,000 despite the size of their holding, to a virtually free insurance for tillers that gives their next of kin Rs500,000 on their death, to 24×7 free electricity in agricultural areas — all this contributed to his victory. Sources said in Telangana under the TRS, the state took care of you from the cradle to the grave.

If you get married and don’t earn a certain amount, you get a Shaadi Mubarak or Kalyana Laskhmi grant of Rs100,000. Now that TRS is back in power, this would be increased to Rs150,000. If you are registered for a home, you will get a one-bedroom flat; a two-bedroom one if you are willing to shell out a little.|Read More

Owaisi brothers will have to flee Hyderabad if BJP wins in Telangana: Yogi

Adityanath also slammed both the Congress and the ruling Telangana Rashtra Samithi for what he said was minority appeasement

Telengana Election 2018: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Sunday said that if the BJP comes to power in Telangana, MIM leader Asaduddin Owaisi and his younger brother Akbaruddin will have to flee Hyderabad the way Nizam did.

Addressing a Bharatiya Janata Party election rally at Tandur near Hyderabad, he said the BJP would give security to all but would not allow anybody to spread anarchy. The BJP leader was apparently referring to the Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) President and Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi and his younger brother.|Yogi Adityanath

He pointed out how Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel had forced the Nizam (the ruler of erstwhile Hyderabad State) to flee. Addressing another rally at Sangareddy, Adityanath said the Congress was a hurdle in the path of construction of a grand Ram temple at Ayodhya. He slammed both the Congress and the ruling Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) for what he said was minority appeasement.