TRS bounces back to stop BJP’s success march

Hyderabad:  After two successive poll reverses, Telangana’s ruling party Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) has bounced back in the elections to the State Legislative Council wresting a seat from the BJP and retaining the other.
The victory of the TRS in two graduates’ constituencies of the Upper House of the State Legislature has put brakes on the BJP’s success march.
TRS candidate Surabhi Vani Devi defeated her BJP rival and sitting MLC N. Ramchander Rao in Hyderabad-Rangareddy-Mahbubnagar constituency. Ruling party’s P.Rajeshwar Reddy retained the Nalgonda-Warangal-Khammam seat.
Graduates were voters in both the constituencies but the fact that they were spread over more than half of total Assembly segments had made the polls significant and they were contested like the general elections.
Dubbak, GHMC polls Reeling under the shock defeat in Dubbak Assembly by-election in November at the hands of BJP and also the saffron party’s impressive performance in Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) polls, TRS was desperate for a victory.
By wresting Hyderabad-Rangareddy-Mahabubnagar seat from the BJP, TRS has settled the scores. The regional party also sent a clear message by retaining Nalgonda-Warangal-Khammam seat that nearly half way into its second term in power that it continues to enjoy the popular support in the country’s youngest state.