TRS trounces People’s Front

​Hyderabad: The clean sweep by the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) in the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) limits despite high profile campaign by big guns like AICC president Rahul Gandhi and Telugu Desam Party chief and Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu as a part of a deal under the People’s Front (PF) resulted in trouncing of all Front candidates. This became clear in the 2018 assembly results announced on Tuesday.

While the MIM, headed by Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi, managed to retain their seven seats, the BJP just scraped through with one, in the process losing four. The sole saffron party winner was T Raja Singh (Goshamahal). The BJP lost Musheerabad (Dr L Laxman), Amberpet (G Kishan Reddy), Khairatabad (Chintala Ramachandra Reddy), Uppal (N V S S Prabhakar) despite the high profile canvassing by Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and Swamy Parapoornanda.

The TRS, which had won only one seat in the last elections of 2014, this time emerged victorious in seven constituencies---Musheerabad (Muta Gopal), Ambarpet (Kaleru Venkatesham), Khairatabad (Danam Nagender), Jubilee Hills (Maganti Gopinath), Sanathnagar (Talasani Srinivas Yadav) and Secunderabad(T Padma Rao Goud). In fact maganti, talasani and padma rao retained their seats.

The MIM winners were: Ahmed Bin Abdullah Balala (Malakpet), Jaffar Hussain (Nampally), Kausar Mohiuddin (Karwan), Mumtaz Ahmed Khan (Charminar), Akbaruddin Owaisi (Chandrayangutta), Syed Ahmed Pasha Quadri (Yakutpura), Mohd Moazam Khan (Bahadurpura).

The TDP which bagged six seats in 2014, including four in HMDA limits, could not even open its account this year. It suffered a humiliating loss, as none of the winners in 2014 could repeat their performance. While of the winners in the last elections R Krishnaiah remained with the TDP, the others like  Talasani, Madhavaram Krishna Rao (Kukatpally), Quthbullapur (K P Vivekanand), Maganti and Arekapudi Gandhi (Serilingampally) later joined the TRS.