TRS (Telangana Rashtra Samithi) in alliance with AIMIM (All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen), emerged as a winner in first assembly elections of Telangana in 2014 by winning 63 seats out of total 119 seats. Congress was the second in the order with 21 seats followed by TDP with 15 seats. Current chief minister KCR (Kalvakuntla Chandrashekar Rao) is confident that TRS would come into power again in 2019. TRS has no strong opposition party/ leader in the state. Further, TRS has rolled out red carpet for other influential politicians of other parties.
Congress is willing to join hands with TDP (Telegu Desam Party, which is the ruling party in the neighboring state Andhra Pradesh). The other small parties and independent players will have to form alliance. In order to form a strong opposition, Congress needs to come together with other parties/ independent candidates and select a strong leader against KCR.
With Congress losing Lok Sabha elections and major state elections, AICC (All India Congress Committee) president Rahul Gandhi and TPCC (Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee) president N Uttam Kumar Reddy are first movers in announcing their manifesto in Telangana. Further BJP too has initiated a campaign to expose the failure of the TRS government. All this may work in favor of opposition marginally but is not enough for them to win the Telangana 2019 legislative assembly elections. Therefore, in absence of strong opposition, TRS is likely to come into power again in 2019.
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