Rural booster puts Congress in power
Even as the rest of India witnessed a lacklustre performance from the Congress, the youngest state, Telangana, became a beacon of hope for the Grand Old Party, poised to secure 64 seats, surpassing the simple majority mark of 60 needed to form a government in the southern state. A key driving force behind the Congress victory was its success in rural constituencies outside the Hyderabad area.
This marks the first instance since the formation of the state in 2014 that any party other than Kalvakuntla Chandrashekar Rao (KCR)-led Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) is set to assume power. However, with only a marginal majority, political analysts expect a power struggle between Telangana Congress chief Revanth Reddy and Legislature Party leader Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka for the position...