Congress-led alliance needs introspection over Telangana failure: TDP

The Telugu Desam Party (TDP) on Tuesday said that the Congress-led alliance needs to analyse and introspect on its ‘failure’ in the Telangana Assembly elections. "We have to analyse the factors that contributed to the success of TRS and failure of our alliance," said TDP leader Ravula Chandrasekhar Reddy, senior leader of TDP, led by Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu.

"We were expecting to get more number of seats. The results are not to our expectations," news agency PTI quoted Reddy as sayinng.

The alliance which also comprised the Telangana Jana Samithi and the Communist Party of India, did not fare well, and "we have to analyse and introspect where it went wrong, and we have to work together", he said.

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"We have to respect people's verdict", Reddy said, adding the alliance would now strive hard to see to it that the TRS government implements the "tall promises" made by the K Chandrasekhar Rao-led party.

The Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) is all set to form its second successive government in the state. TRS has a clear majority after taking a lead in 90 seats, according to the official Election Commission of India trends. Voting for the 119 seats in the state was held on December 7 and saw a voter turnout of 73.20 per cent. 

TRS Chief K Chandrasekhar Rao was leading by 17,074 votes in Gajwel seat over his nearest Congress rival Vanteru Pratap Reddy after the sixth-round counting.

The Assembly election in Telangana was to be held in the middle of 2019, but Telangana Rashtra Samithi chief K Chandrashekar Rao's (KCR), dissolved the state assembly prematurely, pushing elections before schedule.