Ballots have been being counted on Friday, and by that night Congress had a lead in 79 municipalities and 4 companies. The BRS was main in 25 municipalities and the BJP in 4.
As much as eight municipalities seem to have handed suspended verdicts, with each parliament and the BRS now in energy, uniting the independents who received there.
The Congress was main in 4 firms together with Mancherial, Ramagundam, Nalgonda and Mahabubnagar. In Kothagudem, the CPI was within the lead regardless of not having an alliance with the Congress. The Bharatiya Janata Occasion had a bonus in its strongholds of Karimnagar and Nizamabad. BRS was not main in any firm.
In response to Telangana State Election Fee information, out of two,988 wards the place outcomes have been declared, Congress candidates received 1,536 seats in opposition to 779 seats for BRS. The BJP was in a position to win in simply 333 wards.
All India Islamic Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) received 70 seats and CPI(M) received 13 seats.
The election was a check of the Congress’s enchantment to cities and was seen as a “mini-referendum” on the greater than two-year-old authorities that took workplace after the occasion received parliamentary elections in December 2023.
Mr Revanth spearheaded the Congress marketing campaign for the February 11 civic physique polls. In a tense election marketing campaign, Revanth and his cupboard colleagues deliberate government-run welfare applications as a key pillar of the occasion. “We targeted on uplift and improvement works in Hyderabad,” a Congress official mentioned.
Congress leaders additionally focused the BRS management, particularly former CM Ok Chandrashekhar Rao, the Kalvakuntla household of BRS chief KCR. “We have now taken care to make sure that the message is clearly conveyed to the folks that KCR won’t be seen in public,” mentioned a Congress supply.
Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC) chairman Mahesh Kumar Goud advised The Indian Specific that the state’s city areas additionally help the Congress and have “expressed happiness” over the Revanth Reddy authorities’s improvement insurance policies. “There is no such thing as a one within the state who can compete with the Congress. We have now received,” he mentioned at a celebration with Congress officers on the occasion’s headquarters Gandhi Bhawan in Hyderabad.
BRS claimed it was in a position to put up a “robust battle” in opposition to Congress. “We narrowly misplaced dozens of seats,” the BRS chief mentioned.
BRS working consultant KT Rama Rao advised a press convention that the occasion has emerged as the principle opposition occasion to the Congress in these polls, with the BJP “far behind”.
The Bharatiya Janata Occasion, which was demoted to 3rd place, mentioned that though it was not glad with the outcomes, it was “in a position to exert some affect on the polarized electoral panorama.” “It looks as if Congress, BRS, AIMIM and Left events have come collectively to make the BJP lose,” Bharatiya Janata Occasion state president Ramakander Rao advised The Indian Specific.
Because the newly trifurcated core city areas of Hyderabad gear up for elections quickly, the Congress is inspired by the outcomes of those civic physique polls. The Hyderabad Metropolitan Company (GHMC), Malkajgiri Municipal Company (MMC) and Cyberabad Municipal Company (CMC), which have a mixed 300 wards, are scheduled to go to polls later this yr. “The Congress goes to win the massive GHMC election with a landslide,” Mahesh Goud claimed.
