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Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) has made history by winning 11 seats in the elections held for 12 Assembly seats. TRS not only sweep all 10 seats it won in the 2009 elections but also wrested one from the Telugu Desam Party (TDP).
The massive victory margins of TRS have reminded political pundits the triumph of Telangana Praja Samiti (TPS) in the 1971 Lok Sabha elections.
TRS leader T. Harish Rao registered a record victory with a margin of 95,858 votes in Siddipet, polling 82 percent of votes. His nearest rival of the Congress could get only 12,921. Both Congress and TDP forfeited their deposits.
The second highest margin of victory for TRS was in Huzurabad where its former leader in assembly E. Rajender retained the seat with a majority of 79,227 votes. The margin was 78,047 in Manchiryal constituency.
On the other hand, TRS chief K. Chandrasekhara Rao's son K. Tarakarama Rao, who won last election with a margin of 171 in Sircilla, this time defeated his rival by 67,997 votes.
In Warangal West, D. Vinaybhaskar was re-elected with a majority of 67,809 votes. Former minister and Congress leader Mohammed Ali Shabbir was defeated in Yellareddy by TRS candidate A. Ravinder Reddy by 37,535 votes.
TRS also retained Korutla seat with a victory margin of 56,525 votes.
The Congress could put up some face-saving performance only in Nizamabad where the BJP candidate's victory margin was only 11,981 votes. It also gave a good fight to TRS in Sirpur.
Since ballot papers were used for Tuesday's polling in five constituencies, the results were announced after Friday midnight.
