Telangana Assembly Election Results 2018 News

The Congress finally defeats BJP in a direct contest after five years and seven assembly elections

The TRS victory also dispelled the Congress belief that any party would require its support, or the BJP's, to form a government at the Centre

Despite some discontent among farmers over glitches in an earlier loan waiver, the two major schemesRythu Bandhu and Rythu Bheema seemed to have done the trick for the TRS

In Telangana, the Congress had some public sympathy as a party that staked its future to ensure the formation of Telangana state

Rao's clever wooing of voters, populist schemes and pro-Telangana sentiment against Naidu behind win, say analysts

With KCR, as his the CM is known, keeping his distance from the media, KTR has stepped into the shoes as the face of the party-- a role that he is purportedly being groomed for

Uttam Kumar Reddy's attempts to be seen as the frontman for the Telangana agitation to counter the TRS failed to garner much support

Nephew of (caretaker) chief minister and TRS supremo K. Chandrashekhar Rao (KCR), Harish Rao has been winning the Siddipet assembly seat consecutively since 2004, including three by-polls in 2004, 2008 and 2010

Telangana Election Results 2018: Key members of the TRS, including Rao, his son, K.T.Rama Rao and nephew Harish Rao were leading with big margins in their respective constituencies

In the Alair seat, TRS's Gongidi Suneetha had a big lead with 4,519 votes over Congress candidate Budida Bikshamaiah's 1,616 in the first round of counting