Telangana Assembly Election Results 2018: K Chandrasekhar Rao's Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) on Tuesday steamrolled a feeble opposition challenge to win the assembly elections by a landslide, riding pro-Telangana sentiments and the success of a raft of populist schemes launched by his government. 64-year-old Rao emerged as the mascot of Telangana pride when he led the massive movement that convulsed undivided Andhra Pradesh and ended with the creation of the youngest state of the country in 2014.

Rao powered his party to a remarkable victory, winning 88 seats in the 119-member Assembly, just two short of a three-fourths majority, sources in the state office of the states chief electoral officer said. While the Congress party cut a sorry figure, winning just 21 seats.

Here's a visual representation of Telangana Constituency-wise poll outcome 2018:



Though Telangana came into existence more than four years ago, TRS supremo brought alive the issue of Telangana pride by repeatedly targeting his former boss and Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu, accusing him of stalling the development of Telangana and calling him an outsider. His appeal to regional sentiments appeared to have helped the TRS keep the Congress, which made huge gains in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh, under check in Telangana as it had aligned with the TDP, a party Rao accused of acting against the interests of his state.

(With inputs from PTI)