Hyderabad: The Bharatiya Janata Celebration (BJP)’s victory within the Karimnagar Municipal Company and its declare to the mayor’s put up marks a major political milestone for the occasion, its first company win since Telangana’s creation in 2014.

The win comes barely two months after the BJP clinched the mayoral put up in Thiruvananthapuram in December final yr, dislodging the Communist Celebration of India’s (Marxist) candidate who held energy within the company for greater than 30 years.

The occasion gained 30 of the 66 wards, and was in need of simply 4 seats to say the mayoral put up. BJP Member of Parliament Bandi Sanjay was inducted as an ex officio member of the municipality, taking the tally to 31.

The assist of 4 Independents helped the occasion cross over the edge, and achieve management over the third most populous metropolis in Telangana.

The Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS), which gained in eight wards, selected to abstain from voting for the mayor, though it contested the elections. The Congress and the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM), which gained 14 and three seats respectively, participated within the voting course of.

The victory sparked state-wide celebrations by the BJP cadre with the occasion profitable a company for the primary time after 1981 when N.S.N. Reddy grew to become the mayor of Visakhapatnam in united Andhra Pradesh.

Calling the win “spectacular”, Telangana BJP president N. Ramchander Rao stated the BJP gained firmly, defeating all makes an attempt by the Congress and BRS to subvert the democratic verdict.

“With the BJP on the helm within the Karimnagar Municipal Company, we’re dedicated to remodeling town in the direction of Viksit (developed) Telangana – Viksit Bharat”.

Rao stated in a put up on X.

Throughout the press convention, I additionally offered an in depth evaluation of the BJP’s efficiency within the Telangana Municipal Elections and the broader political tendencies rising from the outcomes.

BJP Progress and Enlargement

🔸BJP elevated its tally from round 240 wards in 2020 to just about… pic.twitter.com/qlFGyuEfOf

— N Ramchander Rao (@N_RamchanderRao) February 16, 2026

Union Minister of State for Residence Bandi Sanjay Kumar, an MP from the Karimnagar Lok Sabha constituency, known as this victory “private”, saying he started his political journey as a corporator from Karimnagar.

“Historical past created in Karimnagar. For the primary time, a BJP Mayor took oath within the metropolis. Immediately is not only a political victory; it’s an emotional second. “It looks like a dream that many people carried quietly for years,” he stated in a put up on X.

Historical past created in Karimnagar 🪷
For the primary time, a BJP Mayor took oath within the metropolis.

Congratulations to Shri Kolagani Srinivas garu on changing into the primary BJP Mayor of Karimnagar and Shri Y. Sunil Rao garu as Deputy Mayor.

Immediately is not only a political victory. It’s an… pic.twitter.com/G4iSWFFf2u

— Bandi Sanjay Kumar (@bandisanjay_bjp) February 16, 2026

Not removed from Karimnagar, in Nizamabad, the place the BJP emerged as the only largest winner, it selected to take a seat within the opposition.

Within the Nizamabad Municipal Company (NMC), the BJP gained 28 out of 60 wards, shy of simply three seats required to stake a declare to the mayor’s put up.

Regardless of being positioned to guide, BJP MP Dharmapuri Arvind introduced that the occasion wouldn’t contest the mayoral race.

“We earned the individuals’s mandate via belief and conviction. The remainder is arithmetic. Horse-trading isn’t my path,” Arvind stated, signalling that the occasion wouldn’t interact in backroom offers to safe energy.

The BJP’s robust displaying in each Nizamabad and Karimnagar represents its most important city positive factors for the reason that 2020 polls, with the occasion profitable 335 of the entire 2,996 wards. Within the 2020 elections, it gained 293 wards.

For the Congress that gained the by-polls in Jubilee Hills and Secunderabad in mid 2025, and subsequently additionally the grama panchayat elections in December final yr, this decisive win has led to the ruling occasion calling it the mid-term verdict of its governance.

The Congress, led by Revanth Reddy, gained in 1,537 wards and 5 companies, whereas the BRS and MIM gained 781 and 70 wards respectively. The CPM, independents, and smaller registered events gained the remaining.

The elections to 116 municipalities and 7 companies have been held on 11 February, with the outcomes declared on 14 February and mayoral elections held on 16 February. As many as 36 municipalities didn’t replicate a transparent majority for anybody occasion.

(Edited by Sugita Katyal)