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

Telangana election 2018 : 10.15% voter turnout; EVM snag delays polling

Telangana is voting today to choose the winner after Congress-TDP, TRS and BJP’s high voltage campaigns. Track LIVE updates on Telangana Assembly election 2018

Elections: Voting in Telangana has begun. Polling for the Telangana Assembly Election 2018 will end at 5 pm in 106 constituencies, while in 13 constituencies, which were classified as Left-Wing Extremist-affected, polling ends at 4 pm. Political fortunes of 1,821 candidates will be decided in the first full-fledged election in India’s youngest state. Over 28 million electorates are eligible to exercise their franchise in the State, which has a total of 32,815 polling stations across.

In this triangular contest, the Congress-led alliance will be challenging the ruling TRS, and the BJP. Telangana polls are extremely crucial for the caretaker Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao (KCR). The assembly polls in Telangana were originally scheduled to be held simultaneously with the Lok Sabha elections next year, but the House was dissolved on September 6 as per a recommendation by the state cabinet. It is to be seen if KCR’s gamble to opt for early elections pays off. Meanwhile, the Congress stitched together an alliance with “Prajakutami” (People’s Front) along with the Telugu Desam Party (TDP), the Telangana Jana Samiti (TJS) and the CPI to take on the ruling TRS.

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Key candidates

KCR, his 14 cabinet colleagues including a son and a nephew and state presidents of the Congress and the BJP are among 1,821 candidates in the fray for Friday’s Assembly elections.

All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) leader Akbaruddin Owaisi, state Congress working President A. Revanth Reddy and Telugu Desam Party (TDP) founder N.T. Rama Rao’s granddaughter N. Suhasini are among the other key candidates whose political fortunes will be decided in the polling. Revanth Reddy, Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka are also among the key candidates.

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