Telangana, India’s youngest state goes to election on December 7, 2018. 1,821 candidates will be battling for 119 assembly seats. The state was slated to go to the polls in 2019 along with the lok sabha elections. But Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao dissolved the assembly on September 6. A few hours after dissolving the assembly, KCR announced about 105 candidates for the 119 seats in the state. This gave the Telangana Rashtra Samiti a head start. However, media reports suggested that Telangana Rashtra Samiti candidates faced opposition mainly because of the KCR government’s failure to fulfill poll promises. Prominent among them were the double bedroom scheme for the homeless and mission Bhagiratha which promised piped drinking water to every household in Telangana. In the outgoing assembly, Telangana Rashtra Samiti had 90 seats, Congress had 13 seats, BJP had 11 seats and others had 11 seats. It must be noted Telangana Rashtra Samiti had 63 seats in 2014 and added 27 seats wh...
