Hyderabad
May 16: It’s YSR all the way without the cine glamour. The Congress under his leadership returned to power in the state winning 157 of the 294 seats in the state Assembly and contributing the single largest contingent of 33 MPs to the party at the Centre.
Neither the corruption charges against chief minister Y.S. Rajasekhar Reddy nor the Telangana sentiment have had much influence on the voters, who distinctly delivered their judgment, disproving the calculations of the political pundits of a hung Assembly.
Though the Congress put up a spectacular show in the Lok Sabha elections winning 33 of the 42 Parliament seats in the state, it had to struggle to secure simple majority in the Assembly polls. The party improved its LS tally by four seats as compared to the general elections held in 2004 when it won 29 seats. But in the case of the Assembly, its overall strength came down from 183 to 157, down by 26 seats.
The main Opposition Telugu Desam doubled its tally of seats in the Assembly and the Lok Sabha as compared to that of the 2004 general elections. The TD, which formed the Mahakutami with the TRS and the Left with the sole aim of defeating the Congress, failed to halt the YSR’s jaggarnaut.
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