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HYDERABAD: Two years since returning to govt, Congress tightened its grip connected Telangana's municipality scenery Friday by being connected people to triumph astatine slightest 83 of 116 municipalities and 5 of 7 municipal corporations that went to polls connected Feb 11.Congress sealed a bulk successful the Mancherial, Ramagundam and Nalgonda municipal corporations by evening and was adjacent to wresting Mahbubnagar from BRS with 29 seats successful the 60-member House. The enactment hopes to besides triumph Kothagudem with the assistance of its state CPI.BJP sprung a astonishment by emerging arsenic the azygous largest enactment successful the Karimnagar and Nizamabad municipal corporations, leaving BRS's cupboard bare. The municipal chairpersons and mayors volition beryllium elected connected Feb 16.Of the 2,996 wards crossed 123 municipality section bodies, Congress's tally of 1,537 marked a crisp spike from the 569 seats it won successful the 2020 municipal elections. The enactment had besides performed good successful the Dec 2025 agrarian polls, winning the bulk of panchayats.
Poll results improbable to change governmental equations: Observers CM A Revanth Reddy described the result arsenic an endorsement of the Congress govt's payment and improvement docket implicit the past 2 years.
Thanking voters and enactment workers, helium said the mandate had accrued the govt's responsibility."With this landslide victory, we rededicate ourselves to the improvement of the state, payment of the radical and transparent governance. We volition make each municipality and municipal corp and proceed to triumph the spot of the people," Revanth said successful a societal media post. BRS won 781 wards, down from 1,686 successful 2020, and secured 15 municipalities.
BJP improved its tally to 335 wards from 293 past time, portion AIMIM won 70 seats compared to 87 successful the erstwhile polls.The BJP was heading towards triumph successful the Karimnagar and Nizamabad municipal corporations with Feb 16 polling becoming important wherever ex-officio members and independents, who bagged 181 seats, are expected to play a cardinal relation successful deciding chairperson and mayoral posts. In Kothagudem, wherever Congress and CPI won 22 seats each, the mayor's station is apt to spell to the CPI but precocious nighttime talks are connected to determine the mayoral campaigner betwixt the 2 parties, sources said.
Several ULBs returned hung verdicts, mounting the signifier for aggravated governmental manoeuvring. Allegations of poaching surfaced, with parties reportedly shifting elected members.Political observers said that portion municipality voters gave the Congress a decisive advantage, the BRS and BJP mounted a competitory challenge. A elder perceiver said the municipal results were improbable to importantly change state-level governmental equations, though they bespeak shifting dynamics since the Dec 2023 assembly elections.BJP authorities president N Ramachander Rao said the enactment improved its performance, claiming it won implicit 330 wards and emerged arsenic the azygous largest enactment successful six municipalities. The AIMIM won 68 wards, emerged arsenic the azygous largest enactment successful Bhainsa municipality and recorded a beardown show successful the Nizamabad corporation. Polls person not been held to GHMC, 2 different municipal corporations wrong the ORR halfway municipality belt, and Khammam and Warangal corporations.
