Telangana: Parliamentary elections

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2019

TRS does better than rest

May 24, 2019: The Times of India

Constituencies won by the main political parties in the Lok Sabha elections of 2014 and 2019 in Telangana
From: May 24, 2019: The Times of India

Chief minister K Chandrashekar Rao was left red-faced as TRS won just nine of the 17 seats in the state, well short of the 16 that the party had been talking about as it hoped to become kingmaker in Parliament.

While BJP won four seats, up from its tally of 1 in 2014, Congress won three. It was only five months ago that TRS had decimated the opposition in the assembly election, winning 88 of the 117 seats. Later, at least 11Congress MLAs had pledged allegiance to TRS.

TRS working president K T Rama Rao said the party will introspect. “But we have been given nine seats by people, which is a majority,” he said.

BJP made the maximum gains by winning Secunderabad (which it had won in 2014 too), Adilabad, Karimnagar and Nizamabad. In 2014, it had won three seats in united Andhra Pradesh but just one in the Telangana region. This time, it gained in tribal areas as well in urban swathes with substantial Muslim population. Observers say BJP is targeting Telangana as the second gateway to the south after Karnataka.

BJP’s giant-killer D Aravind defeated sitting MP K Kavitha, KCR’s daughter. The defeat is being seen as the biggest blow to TRS, as the party had pulled out all stops for her win.

TRS got 41.3% of the vote share while Congress got 29.6% and BJP 19.3%.

Sources said it was likely that AIMIM’s Asaduddin Owaisi campaigning for TRS and a pro-Modi wave, especially in urban areas, may have helped BJP. It was also alleged that Congress and BJP supported each other’s candidates in some seats to beat TRS, but Congress denied this. Congress made gains with Bhongir, Nalgonda and Malkajgiri. TPCC president Uttam Kumar Reddy, working president A Revanth Reddy and senior leader Komatireddy Venkat Reddy emerged winners.

Owaisi won the Hyderabad seat for the fourth consecutive time.