Telangana election result LIVE: KCR wins big; Cong-TDP alliance dismissed
KCR's gamble pays off handsomely after counting of votes in Telangana on Monday. Track Telangana election result 2018 live updates here
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Telangana Assembly Election result 2018 LIVE: K. Chandrashekhar Rao led his Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) to a resounding victory, crushing Congress-led alliance in India's youngest state, riding high on Telangana pride and welfare schemes. He will take oath as the Chief Minister of Telangana on Thursday. Beating all expectations of pre-poll surveys and exit polls, the TRS bagged 88 seats in the 119-member Assembly to retain the power with more than two-thirds majority. The gamble for early polls appeared to have paid rich dividends for the regional party, which received the massive mandate in the first general election in the four-year-old state. The Congress-led People's Front, which was expected to give a tough fight to TRS, managed only 21 seats.
TRS chief and Chief Minister Chandrashekhar Rao, who was re-elected from Gajwel constituency, termed the massive win as "people's victory". He said this was a positive vote for the work done by TRS for the welfare and development.
"This victory has added responsibility on us to fulfil the aspirations of people," he said and claimed that with all sections of people backing the TRS, the result had shown the way to the nation for a non-Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and non-Congress alternative. KCR's son K.T. Rama Rao and nephew Harish Rao also retained Sircilla and Siddipet constituencies. However, four of KCR's other cabinet colleagues were defeated as also Assembly Speaker S. Madhusudana Chary.
KCR dissolved the Assembly in September, eight months before its term was to end.11:42 PM
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Caretaker Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao, his son K T Rama Rao, nephew T Harish Rao, ministers E Rajender, T Srinivas Yadav, T Padma Rao and Pocharam Srinivas Reddy, AIMIM leader Akbaruddin Owaisi and BJP leader Raja Singh were among those who won from their constituencies.
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Revanth Reddy, Jana Reddy, J Geetha Reddy and DK Aruna and TPCC President Uttam Kumar Reddys wife Padmavathi Reddy were among senior Congress leaders who were defeated.
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The BJP's Telangana president K Laxman and its senior leader G Kishan Reddy and NTRs grand-daughter Nandamuri Suhasini who contested on TDP ticket also lost the battle.
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Four ministers in the caretaker Telangana government and Speaker of the dissolved Assembly S Madhusudhan Chary were among those who lost from their constituencies Tuesday. The ministers were Tummala Nageswar Rao, Jupally Krishna Rao, P Mahender Reddy and Azmeera Chandulal.
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Telangana ECI trends:
- Bharatiya Janata Party wins 1 seat
- Congress wins 18 seats, leading in 1
- All India Majlis-E-Ittehadul Muslimeen wins 6 seats, leading in 1
- Telangana Rashtra Samithi wins 77 seats, leading in 11
Telangana Rashtra Samithi set to retain power in the state
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First Published: Dec 11 2018 | 7:15 AM IST
