HYDERABAD: The Telangana Rashtra Samithi is set to sweep the municipal elections, conducted across 2,647 wards in 120 municipalities and 382 divisions in nine municipal corporations in the state on the 22nd of this month and in Municipal Corporation of Karimnagar, the polls were conducted on 24th.
The TRS, which achieved a landslide victory in the assembly elections held in 2018 and also in the Panchayat elections held last year, continued its brilliant performance in the municipal polls as well. The TRS leads in more than 110 municipalities and in around eight municipal corporations. Final results will be out by evening.
In almost all the urban local bodies, TRS candidates secured a majority of the wards whereas the Congress came in at a distant second in bagging number of wards. The Bharatiya Janata Party has been drubbed in the state, with its candidates winning less number of seats than even the independents.
TRS winning candidates and party workers burst into celebrations in all municipalities.
However, this did not stop senior party leaders and elected representatives from resorting to camp politics. Many winning candidates were taken by the TRS party leaders to camps to ensure that they do not switch sides.
Even the Congress party sent its candidates to camps in some municipalities to ensure that they do not switch sides.
The TRS had early wins in Parakal and Chennur, even before the elections were conducted, by winning half of the wards in the two civic bodies as in many wards on the last date of withdrawal of nominations only TRS candidates were in the fray.
One can have an overview of the winning performance of the TRS party:
TRS is also leading in Nizamabad in the Bodhan Kamareddy, Banswada, Armoor and Bheemgal municipalities. The BJP which won in the Parliamentary elections, it is leading in only 3 municipalities.
TRS achieved one-sided victory in Bheemgal Municipality. MIM become second in Bodhan Municipality.
In Ramagundam Municipal corporation the competition is neck to neck with TRS bagging 6 wards, BJP 5 wards and Congress 3 whereas Independents bagged 5 out of the 50 wards.
With news of TRS winning majority of the wards in most of the municipalities and municipal corporations, the TRS Working President, Sircilla MLA and Minister for IT, Industries and MAUD, KT Rama Rao Tweeted, thanking people of the state for the landslide victory.
He Tweeted, "My heartfelt gratitude to the people of Telangana for reposing faith in Sri KCR Garu’s leadership again & giving us a thumping victory in Municipal elections. Winning more than 100 plus municipalities out of 120 and all 9 out of 9 municipal corporations is no mean feat."