Hyderabad: After wresting two essential meeting seats from primary opposition BRS within the bypolls, the ruling Congress continued its profitable streak within the Telangana panchayat polls, securing about 60 per cent of sarpanch posts within the state. 

Congress-backed candidates received in 7,527 gram panchayats. Okay Chandrashekar Rao’s BRS got here in second, however bagged a powerful 3,511 sarpanch seats out of the full 12,702 that went to polls throughout the state. The BJP got here a distant third, profitable 710 segments.

Telangana BJP chief N Ramachander Rao informed ThePrint his get together had registered a 300 per cent soar in comparison with the 165 panchayats it received within the earlier polls held in 2019. Dr Okay Laxman was then get together unit chief.

“This time, now we have contested in about 8,000 of the 12,700-odd seats, the truth is preventing for the primary time in lots of villages. We received over 700 seats, got here second in a number of locations, having misplaced the seat by a number of votes in some panchayats,” Rao stated, claiming extra help in districts like Mahabubabad, Janagaon, Yadadri, Nalgonda.

Nevertheless, at an occasion to felicitate the elected sarpanches, upa-sarpanches Thursday, Rao stated that almost 1,000 sarpanches, 1,200 upa-sarpanches, and over 10,000 ward members have received on behalf of the BJP. “These rural victories are a robust reply to critics who declare that the BJP is restricted solely to city areas.”

The BJP carried out properly in north Telangana, particularly in meeting segments like Adilabad, Mudhole, Nirmal, Sirpur. Seven of its eight MLAs elected to the meeting in 2023 are from north Telangana.

The get together received 89 sarpanch seats below Mudhole constituency, pushing the ruling Congress to a second spot with 86, out of a complete 181.  

Although not a really good-looking efficiency total in comparison with Congress and BRS, the BJP’s beneficial properties, in contrast with its personal present in 2019, has come as a face-saver for Rao and his Telangana unit, which has come below severe scrutiny of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

At a breakfast assembly with the get together’s Telangana MPs in New Delhi final week, the PM, it’s learnt, snapped a number of instances. “You aren’t even enjoying the position of the Opposition,” Modi informed them, in response to individuals current on the assembly.

“How way more will you damage the BJP in Telangana?” Modi requested as he sought to match the state unit’s efficiency with the Gujarat unit.

“In 1984, we received two seats. The place are we in Gujarat and the place in Telangana?” the PM remarked.

Based in 1980, the BJP had received two seats within the first Lok Sabha election it contested in 1984—Mehsana in Gujarat and Hanamakonda in Andhra Pradesh (in Telangana at the moment). 

However, Rao claimed the “BJP is shining in Telangana, from villages to the state stage”.

“This phenomenal rise in panchayat polls proves that BJP is the quickest rising political pressure in Telangana, with robust grassroots acceptance and increasing public belief,” added the previous MLC who was appointed Telangana BJP chief in July.

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Optimistic referendum on my govt, says Revanth

Addressing the media Thursday night, as the ultimate outcomes of panchayat polls got here out, Chief Minister Revanth Reddy claimed a 66 per cent strike fee, as he added the 808 profitable Congress insurgent candidates to the get together’s tally of seven,527, taking the full to eight,335.

Revanth known as the outcomes a referendum on his authorities’s efficiency over the past two years. He attributed the success to the welfare schemes like advantageous rice provide, free energy, Rs 500 fuel cylinders, Indiramma housing, interest-free loans to girls self assist teams.

Referring to BRS chief KT Rama Rao’s comment that regardless of being in energy and the CM touring the districts, the Congress may solely handle to win solely about 50 % of panchayats, the Revanth stated that the BRS has been tasting solely defeats in each election since KTR took over because the get together’s working president.

Although elections have been notified for 12,728 gram panchayats, polls have been held for 12,702. Elections couldn’t be held within the remaining 26 as a result of a boycott in a single, court docket keep in six, and reservation points in 19 gram panchayats.

(Edited by Gitanjali Das)

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