TRS Clean Sweeped GHMC Elections, Leads in 103 Wards

Creating history, Telangana’s ruling TRS scored a landslide victory in Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) elections, winning over 100 seats in 150-member body.

Currently, ruling Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) which has fielded candidates in all divisions, is confident of sweeping the polls and capturing the posts of mayor and deputy mayor with post-poll tie up with its friendly party Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM), which is contesting over 60 seats.

“No party has ever formed local government on its own in Hyderabad, we will try to implement promises made in manifesto”, Rao said.

If the recent Warangal parliamentary byelection gave a shock to the Opposition parties at the record majority secured by the TRS, the GHMC poll results were no different.

The TD had bagged 45 seats while the BJP had five corporators.

None of the independent candidates won this time.

Also, the TRS will now have the confidence to face by-elections, if the situation arises, to the Assembly seats of TDP MLAs who have joined the party.

This was the first GHMC election after the formation of separate Telangana state. The lackadaisical campaign of the Congress saw the party was down to a single digit.

“Basically, our work is reaching the people…”, TRS leader and Mr Rao’s daughter, Kalvakuntla Kavitha, who is also Lok Sabha member from Nizamabad, told Press Trust of India.

According to a report there are chances that Information and Technology Minister K T Rama Rao the second big leader in command will be given the portfolio of Mayor at the GHMC. Bettors in AP are betting on those divisions in which TDP has clear chances of winning.

KCR said three new government hospitals with strength of 1,000 beds each and equipped with facilities at par with corporate hospitals will be built in the city in one year. But the clean sweep in Hyderabad has effectively shut the door on the TD and is an indicator for the future as even Andhra Pradesh settlers voted for the TRS.

“Out of 44 corporators, 18 are women”.

Friday’s GHMC results were an unprecedented shock for the two national parties, the Congress and the BJP, and for the TD which aspires to be one.