With Telangana recording a good voting percentage of 72% and some districts registering an increase of nearly 10% over the last elections, the Telangana Rashtra Samiti is in high spirits over its prospects in the State Assembly as well as the lok Sabha elections.
State’s Chief Electoral Officer Bhanwar lal had put the total polling in 10 districts of Telangana at 72%, almost 5% increase over 2009 polling on Wednesday, in some districts like Nalgonda and Adilabad, it’s shot up by nearly 15%.Telangana Rashtra Samiti president K Chandrashekhar Rao is so upbeat over high turnout that he described it as a wave. “We are hundred per cent going to form our Government in Telagnana with 90 seats,” he said.
Another senior TRS leader K Keshav Rao said that by winning most of the 17 lok Sabha seats in the region, the TRS is also going to play a key role at the Centre. “We have already started talks with some of the parties,” he told in a Press conference in Hyderabad on Thursday. Party leaders privately expressed confidence of winning at least eight of the 17 lok Sabha seats. The list includes Medak of KCR, Nizamabad of his daughter Kavita, Chevella seat of industrialist Vishweshwar Reddy. Jitender Reddy was also confident of winning Mahbubnagar seat against Union Minister Jaipal Reddy.
The voting percentage had increased significantly not only in northern Telangana district, which is the stronghold of the TRS, but also in southern Telangana where the TRS was considered to be weak. It has given hopes to the TRS to perform better than it earlier hoped.The Congress on the other hand was still hopeful of emerging as the winner. While Telangana Congress president Ponnala lakshmiah refused to give any possible figure, Deputy Chief Minister Damodar Raja Narasimha said the party will win 65 seats.
Similarly, the TDP-BJP alliance, which appeared to be trailing at third place behind the two major parties is hopeful of doing well than generally expected. The leaders of two parties privately shared the numbers of around 15 in the State Assembly and at least three to four for the lok Sabha.The MIM, with base in parts of Hyderabad, is confident of not only retaining Hyderabad lok Sabha and 7 Assembly seats, but also increasing its strength in the State Assembly. Party president Asaduddin Owaisi exuded confidence that his party will play the role of a kingmaker in the region and no party can form the Government without the support of his party.