Naveen S Garewal
Tribune News Service
Hyderabad, May 23
Within months of a clean sweep in the Vidhan Sabha elections, the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) has got a drubbing in Telangana.
The BJP has improved its tally from one parliamentary seat to winning two seats and leading in two out of the 17 seats.
The Congress has managed to win two and get a lead in one. The AIMIM has won one, leaving the TRS with five wins and lead on four parliamentary seats.
With the party performing dismally, the hopes of Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao (KCR) of playing a major role in national politics through his federal front have been dashed to the ground.
What has hit the Chief Minister’s image further is that his daughter K Kavitha has lost from Nizamabad. All this has happened at a time when KCR handed over the command of the party to his son KT Rama Rao (KTR) by appointing him working president.
Initial leads for the BJP came from the three parliamentary segments in the north. The adjoining segments of Adilabad, Nizamabad and Karimnagar gave the BJP some hope, but later, the trends moved to the twin cities of Secundrabad and Hyderabad where the BJP holds its single Assembly seat in the Goshamahal segment (held by Raja Singh).
Hyderabad has been the bastion of the All-India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) where its president Asaduddin Owaisi has won three times. The Hyderabad seat saw a seesaw contest before turning in favour of the AIMIM.
At Nizamabad, BJP candidate Arvind Dharmapuri has won. He is the younger son of TRS Rajya Sabha member Dharmapuri Srinivas. He joined the BJP in 2017 and undertook 120 km ‘padyatra’ from Jagityal to Bodhan highlighting the failure of the TRS regime to take over the Nizam Sugar Factory last year.
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