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K Chandrashekar Rao (popularly known as KCR) will take oath as the chief minister of Telangana on December 13, after his party pulled up a landslide victory in the December 7 assembly polls, reports News 18. He is expected to take the oath at about 1.34 pm, which is again an auspicious time. The timing has been decided after KCR’s meeting with priests to discuss upon it at the party’s office in Hyderabad, report suggests.
It will be the second consecutive term of KCR as the CM of the state.
The ‘pink’ party won 88 out of 119 seats in the state, 25 more than the last elections held in undivided Andhra Pradesh in 2014. KCR won by a margin of over 51,000 votes from his Gajwel seat, trouncing Vanteru Pratap Reddy of the Congress. Rao's son KT Rama Rao and nephew T Harish Rao, both ministers in his caretaker government, also won by impressive margins.
The main opposition Prajakutami (a term given to the Congress-led alliance) managed to gain power on only 19 seats. The Congress put just 19 seats in its kitty, two less what it won in the last polls, while the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) could win only two against its tally of 15 seats in 2014. The two other coalition partners – Telangana Jana Samithi and Communist Party of India — failed to open their accounts.
The BJP, which had won five seats in the last assembly polls in 2014 that it contested in alliance with the TDP, had to be content with just one seat out of the 118 where its candidates tried their luck. Its state chief and sitting MLA K Laxman finished a poor third in Musheerabad.
Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi's party AIMIM, which Rao calls a "friendly party", won seven seats, equalling its performance in the 2014 polls.
Following the opposition coalitions drubbing, Chandrababu Naidu said it respects the peoples verdict, but claimed the results of the assembly polls in five states showed people had become "antagonistic" to the BJP.
The Congress cried foul, saying it suspected "manipulation" of the electronic voting machines (EVM), and demanded that all votes be counted using the VVPAT (Voter Verified Paper Audit Trail) to ascertain the exact number of votes polled by each candidate.
CPI general secretary Suravaram Sudhakar Reddy attributed distribution of "huge amounts of money and liquor" by the TRS for its victory.
(With PTI inputs)
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