The Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) won a majority in the new state by bagging 63 of the 119 Assembly and 11 of the 17 Lok Sabha seats. The electorate gave no credit to the Congress for granting Telangana and humbled party bigwigs, including Union minister Jaipal Reddy and most of the sitting MPs and a majority of the Assembly candidates. This included TPCC chief Ponnala Lakshmaiah. The YSR Congress too opened its account in Telangana by bagging the Khammam Lok Sabha seat and a couple of Assembly seats in the same district.
The final tally for the Congress in the Assembly was a meagre 21 seats, down from the 48 they had won in 2009. The party could manage to win two Lok Sabha seats, down from 12 in 2009.
In fact, the TDP-BJP combine came close to the Congress tally by bagging 20 seats, of which the regional party bagged 15 Assembly seats and the BJP five. Almost all of them are in Greater Hyderabad, where a Modi wave was discernable.
The alliance partners also did well in the Lok Sabha, winning two seats, includ ing that of Secunderabad (BJP) and Malkajgiri (TDP) in the city.
Analysts pointed out that the anti-incumbency against Congress was so strong that even the creation of Telangana could not create a favorable environment for the party.
MIM's Asaduddin Owaisi won the Hyderabad seat but only after facing a strong fight put up by the BJP's Bhagwanth Rao. MIM also won in its traditional seven Assembly seats in the Old City of Hyderabad.
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