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Telangana election results: Public spending helped TRS romp back to power

The TRS will hike reservation for minorities from the current 7 % to 12 % in education and jobs.

TRS chief K Chandrasekhara Rao shows the  victory sign at the party headquarters after the results gave a landslide victory to his party in the Assembly polls	 photo:PTI
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TRS chief K Chandrasekhara Rao shows the victory sign at the party headquarters after the results gave a landslide victory to his party in the Assembly polls photo:PTI

Aditi Phadnis New Delhi
It is not hard to work out why the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) romped back to power in the country’s youngest state — the main reason is public spending.

According to the results at the time of going to print, Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao’s TRS had won 60 seats in the 118-seat Assembly, and were leading in 28 more. Congress had won 13 and was leading in six, and the Bharatiya Janata Party had won one seat.


Rao, popularly known as