TRS chief KCR to take oath as Telangana CM tomorrow

December 12, 2018 07:52

TRS President K Chandrashekhar Rao will take oath as the chief minister of Telangana tomorrow. Telangana Rashtra Samithi won 88 seats in the Telangana assembly elections.

KCR won the polls by a landslide, riding pro-Telangana sentiments and the success of a raft of populist schemes launched by his government.

Rao himself won by a margin of over 51,000 votes from his Gajwel seat, trouncing V Pratap Reddy of the Congress.

The 'Praja Kutami' (People's Front), a four-party opposition alliance led by the Congress that included Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu's Telugu Desam Party, the Communist Party of India and the newly-formed Telangana Jana Samiti, cut a sorry figure together winning 21 seats.

The Congress had just 19 seats in its kitty, two less that what it won in the last polls, while the TDP could win only two against its tally of 15 seats in 2014.

ALSO READ: How KCR secured a landslide victory in Telangana

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