KCR’s day.

People’s victory, says KCR; sweeps Telangana; top Congress men lose

Will play crucial role in national politics: KCR; Telangana will show the way

Agency Report | Hyderabad | 11 December, 2018 | 09:10 PM

Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) President and Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrashekhar Rao has termed the huge win of his party in the assembly elections as a people's victory. Buoyed by the massive victory, Rao said he would play a crucial role in national politics.

He told a news conference at TRS headquarters that people irrespective of caste, creed and religion and all sections including farmers, women and youth supported the TRS.

KCR, as Rao is popularly known, thanked people for showing confidence in the TRS and vowed to continue the efforts to take Telangana forward on the path of development and prosperity.

The TRS chief advised party workers against becoming arrogant, saying this huge victory has added to their responsibility to fulfil the promises made to the people.

He said TRS remained committed to fulfilling its promise to irrigate one crore acres by completing all pending projects.
He told reporters that he would work to evolve an alternative to both Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Congress with a new economic model.

KCR said he is confident that he would bring about qualitative change in Indian politics. “You will see a beginning very shortly,” he said.

Reacting to the Congress party’s victory in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh, KCR said this happened because there was no other alternative to the BJP. “India needs to come out of this routine,” he said.

He was confident that Telangana would show the way to the entire country. He said he would soon visit New Delhi.

KCR reiterated that his proposed front would not be a realignment of political parties. “We are going to unite polity and people of India,” he said.

“There are certain forces who are playing dirty politics. Four parties are coming together and doing drama,” he said in an obvious reference to the efforts to bring together non-BJP parties.

Earlier, he told the media that the victory of TRS in the Assembly elections is people’s victory.

People irrespective of caste, creed and religion and all sections including farmers, women and youth supported the TRS.

KCR thanked the people for expressing faith in the TRS and vowed to continue the efforts to take Telangana forward on the path of development and prosperity.

He said TRS remains committed to fulfilling its promise to irrigate one crore acres by completing all pending projects.
The Congress party in Telangana not only suffered a huge defeat in Assembly elections but also faced embarrassment as almost all its top leaders were humbled.

Leaders who were seen as the Chief Ministerial candidate in the event of a Congress-led People’s Front victory were also defeated.

K. Jana Reddy, who was Leader of Opposition in the dissolved Assembly, lost in Nagarjunasagar constituency.

Congress Working President Revanth Reddy, whose arrest last week triggered a huge row, failed to retain the Kodangal seat.

A former leader of the Telugu Desam Party (TDP), he had joined the Congress early this year and was recently appointed the Working President of the state unit.

Revanth had declared after polling that if he loses he would quit politics. Telangana Rashtra Samithi’s P. Narendra Reddy defeated the Congress leader by 9,077 votes.

Another Congress Working President, Ponnam Prabhakar, lost in Karimnagar. Former central Minister Sarve Satyanarayana failed to win from Secunderabad Cantonment. Former Deputy Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh Damodar Rajanarasimha lost the election from Andole.

Senior Congress leaders and former Andhra Pradesh Ministers J. Geeta Reddy, D.K. Aruna, Jeevan Reddy, Komatreddy Venkat Reddy, Ponnala Lakshmaiah, Mohammed Ali Shabbir, Konda Surekha, G. Chinna Reddy, N. Janardhan Reddy and Mukesh Goud were all defeated. (IANS)