Hyderabad: Telangana chief minister Revanth Reddy has consolidated his place throughout the Congress and the state authorities after the celebration dominated the city native physique elections, successful a majority of municipalities and companies in outcomes declared Friday evening.

The Congress secured 67 of 116 municipalities and 4 of seven companies that went to polls on 11 February, with hung verdicts in over 35 municipalities and three companies.
The opposition Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS), which dominated Telangana for 2 phrases, was diminished to 13 municipalities and didn’t win any company.

On the ward and division stage, the Congress gained 1,537 of two,996 wards—simply over 51 p.c however a dramatic surge from 569 wards within the 2020 polls. The BRS secured 780 wards, the BJP 335, the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) 70.

The victory, coming two months after Congress-backed candidates gained 60 p.c of rural our bodies within the December 2025 panchayat polls, reinforces Revanth’s authority as he approaches two and a half years in workplace. Consecutive by-poll wins in Secunderabad Cantonment (2024) and Jubilee Hills (2025) have additional deflated hypothesis about management change.

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10.5-year ambition

Revanth signalled his confidence a day earlier than the outcomes, declaring in Telugu at his Tughlaq Street residence in New Delhi Thursday: “Nene raju, nene mantri (I’m the king, am the minister).”

The phrase—which means “I’m absolutely the authority” and borrowed from a 2017 Telugu political drama starring Rana Daggubati—was delivered throughout a dialog with reporters wherein he emphasised he was “not in competitors with anybody”.

The chief minister, who had met Congress chief Rahul Gandhi earlier that day, mentioned he would stay in workplace for 10.5 years, surpassing former chief minister Ok Chandrasekhar Rao’s 9.5-year tenure. His calculation is outwardly based mostly on Telangana going to polls in “Jamili (One Nation, One Election) mode” in mid-2029, which may maintain him within the chief minister’s seat for six extra months past the meeting election due in late 2028.

The meeting polls had been final held in November 2023.

Company outcomes

The Congress gained 4 companies—Mahbubnagar, Mancherial, Nalgonda, and Ramagundam, whereas it may bag Kothagudem in alliance with CPI and Nizamabad together with AIMIM.

Elections weren’t held in Hyderabad, the place the Higher Hyderabad Municipal Company (GHMC) time period ended earlier this month.

Revanth appointed a particular officer to handle the municipal physique, one of many nation’s largest, which has now been divided into three elements. Native polls within the capital area are anticipated later this 12 months.

Outcomes, identified Friday evening, had been based mostly on poll paper voting. A majority of the 30 odd hung municipalities are anticipated to align with the ruling celebration, with assist of ex-officio votes (of MLAs and so on) in some our bodies.

Regardless of successful half of Telangana’s 17 Lok Sabha seats in 2024, the BJP did not safe any municipality and managed solely round 10 p.c of whole city physique wards. However the celebration gained the very best variety of segments in each Karimnagar and Nizamabad companies, represented by its MPs Bandi Sanjay and D. Aravind respectively within the Lok Sabha.

BJP’s efficiency was largely lacklustre within the different six Lok Sabha and 7 meeting segments that it represents throughout the state.

‘Public endorsement’ of govt

On Friday, because the outcomes had been coming in, Revanth met Congress MP Priyanka Gandhi, who congratulated him on the celebration’s efficiency. The Chief Minister advised her the outcomes proved Telangana voters had been content material along with his authorities’s welfare schemes and growth programmes.

In a submit on X, Revanth described the outcomes as “public endorsement of his two years of praja-paalana (people-centric rule)”.

BRS Working President Ok.T. Rama Rao countered the Congress narrative, claiming the decision “displays the rising confidence of individuals in BRS and indicators robust public dissatisfaction with the ruling Congress authorities”.

“Regardless of intense strain, misuse of cash energy, administrative equipment, and intimidation techniques by the ruling celebration, BRS may safe vital victories and emerged because the principal political pressure in city native our bodies,” the previous minister advised reporters.

KTR in contrast the outcomes with the 2020 municipal elections, when BRS candidates gained 122 mayoral and chairperson posts out of 130.

(Edited by Prerna Madan)

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