Telangana: K Chandrasekhar Rao to take oath as Chief Minister on Thursday after demolishing opposition in state

The newly-elected lawmakers of the TRS will hold a meeting at 11.30 am today to formally elect Rao as the leader of the legislature party. In the state, TRS won 88 seats in the 119-member assembly giving Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao a landslide majority. Rao won by a margin of over 51,000 votes from his Gajwel seat.

Rao won by a margin of over 51,000 votes from his Gajwel seat. The newly-elected lawmakers of the TRS are meeting here at 11.30 am on Wednesday to formally elect Rao as the leader of the legislature party./ Twitter Image

Hyderabad: A day after K Chandrasekhar Rao's TRS steamrolled a feeble opposition challenges to win the assembly elections by a landslide in Telangana, news agency ANI reported that he is likely to take oath as the Chief Minister on Thursday. The newly-elected lawmakers of the TRS will hold a meeting at 11.30 am today to formally elect Rao as the leader of the legislature party. In the state, TRS won 88 seats in the 119-member assembly giving Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao a landslide majority. Rao won by a margin of over 51,000 votes from his Gajwel seat.

Sources: TRS President K Chandrashekhar Rao will take oath as the Chief Minister of Telangana tomorrow. Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) won 88 seats in #TelanganaAssemblyElections2018. pic.twitter.com/WAu536ZQr0

— ANI (@ANI) December 12, 2018

Telangana was the only state among the five where results of assembly polls were declared on Tuesday that the Congress had cobbled together a coalition amid the talk of formation of a broad-based alliance to take on the BJP-led NDA in the Lok Sabha polls next year. Earlier on Tuesday, PM Narendra Modi also took to Twitter to express his congratulations to KCR “for the thumping win in Telangana.” In the state, the Congress had just 19 seats in its kitty, two less than what it won in the last polls, while the TDP could win only two against its tally of 15 seats in 2014. The two other coalition partners failed to open their account. The BJP, which had won five seats in the last assembly polls in 2014 held in undivided Andhra Pradesh that it contested in alliance with the TDP, had to be content with just one seat out of the 118 where its candidates tried their luck. Its state chief and sitting MLA K Laxman finished a poor third in Musheerabad. 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 his state’s interests.