In an interesting feature of the elections 2014 in Telangana was almost complete elimination of the Congress from the Greater Hyderabad region as riding on Modi wave TDP-BJP alliance won 15 of the 24 Assembly seats and two lok Sabha seats.
The MIM continue to hold its sway over Hyderabad city as it won the lok Sabha poll from city for the ninth consecutive time and also retained its seven Assembly seats.Telangana Rashtra Samiti, which never had any big presence in the city made its debut by winning Secunderabad Assembly and Chevella lok Sabha seat.
Many Congress bigwigs in the city bite the dust as lotus rode the Bicycle to victory. They include former Ministers Danama Nagendar and Mukesh Goud (both lost to the BJP), vice-chairman of National Disaster Management Authority Marri Shashidhar Reddy (who lost to the TDP) and Anjan Kumar Yadav MP who lost to BJP's Bandaru Dattatreya in Secunderabad. Dattatreya was helped by the TDP strong cadre base in various Assembly segments including Khairatabad, Kukatpally and Jubilee Hills.
It is first time that the Congress was reduced to nil in Greater Hyderabad, where it managed to win majority of seats in 2004 and 2009.The TDP's lone lok Sabha seat in Telangana, Malkajgiri also came from the city region where its candidate Ch Malla Reddy defeated sitting Congress MP and Minister Sarve Satynarayana by more than 34,000 votes. lok Satta president Jayprakash Narayan came far behind.
Chevella, parts of which fall in Greater Hyderabad region was bagged by the TRS. Its candidate Konda Visveshwara Reddy defeated Kartik Reddy of the Congress by a margin of 52,838 in a three-cornered contest.For Asaduddin Owaisi, MIM president, it was third consecutive win from Hyderabad lok Sabha constituency. He defeated Bhagwant Rao of the BJP by a margin of 2,24,000 votes, surpassing his previous margin of 1,15,000 votes.
Of the seven Assembly segments of Hyderabad constituency, the MIM retained all six. One seat of Goshamahal was wrested by the BJP from Congress. BJP's nominee Raja Singh, a Bajrang Dal activist, won by a margin of 40,000 votes. MIM's seventh seat of Nampally under Secunderabad lok Sabha constituency.His younger brother Akbaruddin Owaisi retained his Chandrayangutta seat by a margin of 52,000 odd votes. MIM's victorious candidates include Ahmad Pasha Quadri (Charminar), Mumtaz Ahmad Khan (Yakutpura), Ahmad Balala (Malakpet), Moazzam Khan (Bahadurpura), Kausar Mohiuddin (Karwan) and Jaffar Hussain Meraj (Nampally). In three of these constituencies — Yakutpura, Malakpet and Karwan — BJP came second. But MIM's attempt to expand its base by contesting many other lok Sabha and Assembly seats failed to bear fruits.
While the TDP was happy by its overall performance of winning 15 seats, the State BJP president G Kishan Reddy blamed party's disappointing performance of winning only 5 Assembly seats on the alliance with the TDP.“We will have a detailed analysis of the results. There were many reasons for it,” he said.