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What seemed impossible a few years ago is now a reality. Telangana will have its own first assembly and a Chief Minister in a few days from now. While most seem to believe that the Telangana results are on expected lines, the spectacular performance of the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) deserves greater analysis. A party with virtually no cadre in many districts, virtually nonexistent in the twin cities of Hyderabad was able to mobilize a large number of voters in the Telangana plank. It made inroads in areas which were hitherto completely out of reach. Vote Share: In a multi cornered contest that was on witness in Telangana, even a few percentage points difference in vote share would mean a ...

In a coup of sorts, KCR convinced the chief of Coal India Limited S Narsing Rao to give up his high-profile post to serve in Telangana Chief Minister’s Office (CMO). While media reports say Mr Rao would be serving as Principal Secretary, it is possible he could serve as an OSD. CIL top position is highly contested for and Mr Rao himself was picked out of dozen top IAS officers 2 years ago. It must have required quite some convincing on KCR’s part for Rao to consider this option. Hardly a day after he broached the subject of power deficit in Telangana, KCR was knocking the doors of the Governor again with CIL Chief S Narsing Rao in toe, showing ...

On May 5,2014, we came with the forecast of Telangana elections and gave these figures for Lok Sabha contest in Telangana. We posted in this story the details and reasons behind the figures. Broadly, here is what we forecasted for the number of seats. While we forecasted the LS seats for all parties, we limited the Assembly forecast to 2 main parties TRS and Congress. Here are the details. Lok Sabha: INC 2 , TRS 10, BJP 2, TDP 1, MIM 1, YSRCP 1. Assembly: TRS: 65 INC: 20-30 We almost got everything right but for the 1 seat BJP lost to TRS. TRS eventually got 11 and BJP was limited to 1. We thank all the guys who gave ...

In a repeat of earlier instances, TRS paid dearly due to EC’s negligence in allotting Symbols for contesting independents. An unknown independent with Auto symbol in Nagarkurnool, Buddula Srinivas got 54680 in Nagarkurnool election. Most of these votes were intended for the TRS Car symbol. Due to close similarity, TRS candidate Manda Jagannadam lost these votes and got defeated by Congress candidate Nandi Yellaiah by over 16000 votes! This seat which was considered easy for TRS was lost giving a shock to observers. In fact, the independent got more votes than even the YSRCP candidate who got over 22985 votes. This is not the first time this happened with TRS. Hope EC will be careful in future or otherwise the ...

Jayaprakash Narayan’s Lok Satta Party collapsed stunningly in Andhra and Telangana regions going by the data released by election commission. Among 15 political parties that competed, Lok Satta Party stood 12th in terms of vote share in all the assembly constituencies put together in Andhra and Telangana. The data reveals that even an aborted campaign of Jai Samaikyandra Party fetched it more votes than LSP. In fact, parties like BSP, which do not command much presence in AP, scored more than double the votes of LSP! One more interesting fact is that LSP managed lesser votes than even the number of NOTA votes polled in AP. The results raises questions on the agenda of LSP and the commitment of it’s ...