Telangana municipal polls: No clean sweep for Congress as BRS fights back, BJP fails to walk the talk

Despite the Congress being in power, Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy himself campaigning in multiple districts and Ministers going all out with promises, goodies and freebies, the ruling party failed to match what the principal opposition party, the Bharat Rashtra Samithi, managed when it was in power in the municipal elections, results of which were declared on Friday.

Till 8 pm, as per the Telangana State Election Commission (TSEC) website data on results in 2,996 wards, the Congress won 1,526 wards and the BRS 772 wards while the BJP was restricted to 320 wards. The AIMIM won 66 wards, independents won 180 and other registered parties with the SEC bagged 73 wards.

On the other hand, the BJP, which had projected itself as



an alternative to both the Congress and the BRS, could muster just above 300 wards, barely 10 more than what it managed last time. And this, interestingly, was even after BJP national president Nitin Nabin and Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis campaigned in the State. However, BJP State president N Ramchander Rao claimed that the party had emerged as the single largest party in six municipalities and that it would ‘capture’ power in Nizamabad and Karimnagar municipal corporations.

“The BJP, which had no ground in several places, will hoist its flag in such places,” Ramchander Rao claimed, however, admitting that the results in Mancherial, Ramagundam, Nalgonda and Nizamabad were a bit against the party expectations.