Greater Hyderabad may hold the key to winning Telangana assembly polls
Live MintHyderabad: The Greater Hyderabad region could be the key to winning the upcoming assembly elections in Telangana, with about 24 out of a total of 119 seats falling in the region. Elections in Telangana, which were earlier slated to be held between April-May in 2019, have been advanced after former Telangana chief minister K. Chandrashekar Rao dissolved the assembly on 6 September citing “political fragility”. As such, one of the main reasons behind the Congress-TDP alliance, which also includes the Communist Party of India and the Telangana Jana Samithi, is the aim of winning some assembly seats in the area where people from neighbouring Andhra Pradesh have settled, according to a senior Congress leader on condition of anonymity. TRS and AIMIM leaders, who did not want to be identified, pointed out that their parties had swept the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation elections in 2016 by winning 143 of the total of 150 seats.