In 1971 Telangana Praja Samithi won 11 out of 14 Lok Sabha seats. It stalled the tsunami of Indira Gandhi after Bangladesh was created winning war with Pakistan. None could imagine the strength of Telangana voter deciding so differently. Nation was surprised at that stunning defeat of Congress here, while it won all over India. History repeated in 2014 as Telangana voters elected 11 MPs out of 17. If TPS stalled Indira storm in 1971, TRS stopped Modi wave now. The just born State is now in the company of Kerala, Tamilnadu, Odisha and West Bengal in doing so. The division of Andhra Pradesh has changed the democratic premise of Telugu battle for ballot. It has ‘empowered the people’ of ...

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 ...

Examining the vote share in the just concluded general elections in Telangana, it is clear there was no NaMo wave in Telangana. Attached are the vote shares in Assembly and Lok Sabha elections across 119 Assembly and 17 MP constituencies. TRS scored more vote share in Parliamentary contests than in the assembly segments within the same MP constituencies. In many instances, such cross-voting resulted even in victories to TRS in MP seats. Chevella Parliamentary seat is an example where TRS won just 2 out of 7 assembly segments for MLA contests but won the Mp seat due to cross-voting by a comfortable margin of above 70,000 votes. While the TDP/BJP alliance fetched a vote share of 22.44 in 17 Lok ...