ASSEMBLY-ELECTIONS
Telangana: A crown of thorns awaits Revanth Reddy
Unlike other Congress leaders who were clueless on how to combat KCR’s popularity, Revanth Reddy boldly took to the streets and led from the front. Now begins another phase of struggle to give the seniors their pound of flesh, find financial resources to meet expensive Congress “guarantees”, and deliver Lok Sabha seats for the party
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Telangana Elections 2023: Anti-incumbency a factor but can Congress override KCR’s charisma?
Telangana Elections 2023: As campaigning ended, KCR upped his sentimental pitch to voters as the leader who fought most fiercely for statehood. Congress tried to pitch Indira Gandhi’s connect with Telangana despite four decades elapsing since her passing. Both BRS and Congress have an array of welfare schemes but anti-incumbency rubs some shine off BRS promises
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Telangana Elections 2023: Will KCR’s risky bet of tickets to nearly all his sitting MLAs pay off?
Telangana Elections 2023: If there is voter fatigue with sitting BRS MLAs, chief minister K Chandrashekar Rao’s move to renominate all but four of his sitting MLAs will backfire
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Telangana Elections 2023: BRS trips on north-south geographical and developmental divide
Telangana Elections 2023: North Telangana from where most of the BRS bigwigs hail from has enjoyed the best of irrigation facilities and the bounty of the Godavari river. In contrast south Telangana has fallen behind as successive governments failed to find solutions to its developmental problems
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Telangana Elections 2023: Can Congress capitalise on Owaisi no-show in his bastion against BJP leader Raja Singh?
Telangana Elections 2023: BJP’s fiery leader T Raja Singh has won two elections on the trot from Hyderabad's Goshamahal seat, where the AIMIM is headquartered. AIMIM not fielding a candidate has come handy for Congress to allege a secret Owaisi-BJP pact, but it can equally be argued in Asaduddin Owaisi’s favour that he doesn’t want a split in Muslim votes
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Telangana Elections 2023: Can BJP’s pivot to an OBC CM checkmate BRS and Congress?
Telangana Elections 2023: The realisation that Hindutva isn’t fetching BJP sufficient electoral rewards in the state has forced the party to promise an OBC CM. This put BRS and Congress, whose top echelons are dominated by upper caste Velamas and Reddys respectively, on the mat
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Telangana Elections 2023: Will Modi's Dalit outreach help BJP?
Telangana Elections 2023: Madigas have long been demanding sub-categorisation of the SC quota claiming that the “forwards” among Dalits like Malas were cornering the benefits. With successive governments at the state and Centre failing them, PM Modi’s show of empathy to a community leader, despite inaction since 2014, projected all the right optics
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Telangana Elections 2023: KCR’s search for a backup safe seat lands him in another stiff contest
Telangana Elections 2023: With his Gajwel duel with BJP's Etela Rajender getting tough, chief minister KCR has ventured into Kamareddy only to draw another arch-rival, Congress state president Revanth Reddy, into the battle
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Telangana Elections 2023: Has KCR lost the Muslim support that he took for granted?
Telangana Elections 2023: Support from Muslims, buttressed further by staying on the right side of Asaduddin Owaisi, helped KCR in his reelection bid in 2018. But Muslims are no longer enthused with KCR, who despite ensuring communal peace, hasn’t delivered on other key promises like a 12% quota. Both KCR and Owaisi, worry that their common foe – Congress – is poised to benefit
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Telangana Elections 2023: KCR fighting from a second seat suggests all is not well in Gajwel
Telangana elections 2023: KCR’s decision to contest from Kamareddy may have followed the huge rumblings of discontent in Gajwel, a constituency he assiduously nurtured and which has gained much from having the CM as its MLA. To make matters worse for KCR, his sworn rival BJP’s Etela Rajender is making a strong pitch for community votes
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Telangana Elections 2023: A serial defector sums up BJP and Congress’s wildly fluctuating fortunes
Telangana Elections 2023: In 2022, when Komatireddy Rajagopal Reddy defected to BJP from Congress, the saffron party was on a high in Telangana after a string of impressive wins. But he lost a bypoll, BJP lost momentum in the state, Congress regained its mojo after Karnataka, and lo, Reddy is coming back home
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Telangana Elections 2023: Between Congress and the November 30 polling day stands the BRS triumvirate of KCR, KTR and Harish Rao
Telangana Elections 2023: While BRS supremo K Chandrashekar Rao came up in politics the hard way and hasn’t let slip his grip over the party or the electorate, the gen-next comprising son KT Rama Rao and nephew T Harish Rao have consciously shunned shortcuts, transforming themselves by dint of hard work into leaders and administrators that the masses identify with
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Telangana Elections 2023: A jailed Chandrababu Naidu may do more damage to KCR than an actively campaigning Naidu
Telangana Elections 2023: The Kamma community to which Chandrababu Naidu belongs has been feeling marginalised in Telangana. With perceptions among them strong that Telangana CM K Chandrashekar Rao is aligned to Jagan Mohan Reddy’s alleged witch-hunt that has purportedly landed Naidu in jail, it could lead to a strong mobilisation against BRS in around 30 seats where the Kammas are influential
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Telangana: KCR dominates, but BJP ceding ground to Congress will reduce division of anti-incumbency votes
KCR’s pivotal role in the statehood movement and smartly packaged welfare schemes allows him to start off with a huge advantage. But Congress’s victory in Karnataka has had a cascading effect on its cadre morale in Telangana and eroded BJP’s claims of being the party that can beat KCR
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Congress’s Telangana worry: Too many Reddy leaders, too few from OBCs
The Telangana leadership of the Congress is crowded in by Reddys, and it worked against the entry of another big Reddy leader, YS Sharmila, the late YS Rajasekhara Reddy’s daughter. With over 50% of the state comprised of OBCs, the lack of a big OBC face is a gaping hole in Congress’s armour
INDIA
Andhra Pradesh: Chandrababu Naidu’s arrest could be a turning point before the 2024 assembly polls
Naidu’s arrest over an alleged scam, over four years after his tenure ended, has won the embattled TDP support from key opposition parties. Has the formidable Jagan Reddy made a political miscalculation or was he taking countermeasures in view of Naidu’s rallies attracting large crowds?
