Anumula Revanth Reddy who led the Congress to a massive victory in Telangana was formally picked as the chief of its Legislature Party this evening, clearing the decks for him to be the state's next Chief Minister.
Analogies with 2003-04 when BJP lost in 2004 after sweeping the 2003 polls are flawed. Unlike in 2003, BJP put up its national leadership and its centralised ideological agenda for a popular referendum in the three Hindi heartland assembly polls, and there is much reason to believe that a similar strategy might work similarly well in the national elections
The AIMIM, which is also referred to as MIM, retained the seats which it had been winning since 2009. A friendly party of BRS, it had contested nine seats, all in Hyderabad and had backed BRS in the rest of the state. The party's vote share came down 2.22 per cent from 2.71 per cent in 2018. It contested nine seats this time against eight in the previous election. 🗳️ Telangana Assembly Election Results 2023: Asaduddin Owaisi-Led AIMIM Retains Seven Seats in State but Vote Share Drops by 2.22%.
India's youngest state, Telangana, has seen just one party at the helm since its birth in 2014 - the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (formerly the Telangana Rashtra Samiti). But that will soon change as the Congress comprehensively defeated BRS.
There is no consensus within the Congress on who will be the next Telangana Chief Minister, sources told NDTV Monday afternoon, 24 hours after the party eased past K Chandrasekhar Rao's BRS.