Telangana Rashtra Samiti sweeps civic polls

Hyderabad: Telangana Rashtra Samiti, which took complete control of the Legislative Council and won the Chairman’s post, has made an equally stellar performance in the corporation and municipal elections.

It has bagged the entire three Mayors’ posts of Karimnagar, Nizamabad and Ramagundem municipal corporations. It also won 23 municipalities, followed by the Congress 17, Telugu Desam 4, BJP 3, MIM 2 and Independent 1 in the state.

Elections were held for 50 of the 52 municipalities. Elections to Nalgonda and Suryapet chairpersons’ posts have been postponed.

Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao, closely monitored the elections and put IT minister K.T. Rama Rao, irrigation minister T. Harish Rao and other ministers, MPs and MLAs to oversee the polls across Telangana.

In fact, the Chief Minister asked several ministers, MPs and Legislators who planned to attend the ATA convention in the US, to cancel their visits and focus on the polls. “The TRS is moving forward towards making a Golden Telangana. People have reposed faith in the TRS and the Chief Minister, K. Chandrasekhar Rao, yet again. We will develop all the municipalities, ensure basic and modern amenities un-der the leadership of KCR,” said B. Vinod Kumar, the TRS MP and politburo member.

Mr Vinod Kumar said the state government would strive to ensure some cities in Telangana to be among the 100 major cities planned by the Modi government.

“The Chief Minister would certainly take up the matter with the Modi government to include some cities in Telangana for focussed development and make it like one of the international cities,” he sid.