KCR powered his party to a remarkable victory, winning 88 seats in the 119-member Assembly, just two short of three-fourths majority.
Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) led by K Chandrasekhar Rao (KCR) steamrolled all his opponents to win the assembly elections by a landslide. Rao, who emerged as the mascot of Telangana pride when he led the massive movement that convulsed undivided Andhra Pradesh and ended with the creation of the youngest state of the country in 2014, powered his party to a remarkable victory, winning 88 seats in the 119-member Assembly, just two short of three-fourths majority.
Rao himself won by a margin of over 51,000 votes from his Gajwel seat, trouncing V Pratap Reddy of the Congress. Rao's son K T Rama Rao and nephew T Harish Rao, both ministers in his caretaker government, also won by impressive margins.
The Praja Kutami (Peoples Front), a 4-party opposition alliance led by the Congress that included Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu's TDP, CPI 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 than what it won in the last polls, while the TDP could win only two against its tally of 15 seats in 2014. The two other coalition partners failed to open their account.
