Election 2024 | Telangana: How Bharat Rashtra Samithi lost its sheen to the Congress
The HinduPublished : Apr 29, 2024 18:41 IST - 8 MINS READ The tone and tenor of the Lok Sabha election in Telangana has undergone a change since the Congress’ victory just four months ago in the December 2023 Assembly election. In the 2019 Lok Sabha election, the TRS won nine seats with 47 per cent of the votes. Despite all these schemes, the BRS got a drubbing in the 2023 Assembly election, with the number of seats reducing to 39 and the vote share to 37 per cent. According to the Srikrishna Committee Report, which was constituted by the Union government to study the prevailing situation for separate State demand in composite Andhra Pradesh, the demographic profile for Telangana was as follows: the Scheduled Castes 15.8 per cent, the Scheduled Tribes 8.9 per cent, the Backward Classes 50.7 per cent, Other Castes 10.7 per cent, Muslims 12.4 per cent, and others 1.5 per cent.