IT and Industries Minister K. T. Rama Rao has thanked people of Telangana for turning out in large numbers to exercise their franchise in the first election held in the State after its formation in June 2014.
He also thanked the official machinery for taking measures to ensure that the exercise was incident-free.
‘Positive vote’
Stating that registering 73% voting by the State’s electorate was history in itself, Mr. Rama Rao said the TRS was of the belief that the high turnout was due to positive vote since women and aged people participated in the exercise in large numbers. “The election result is going to be one-sided and we are going to form government with about 100 seats, even bettering the exit poll estimates,” the TRS leader told media persons here on Saturday.
He thanked the party rank and file who had been toiling for the last three months and asked the candidates and activists to continue the spirit till counting of votes on the last EVM was completed.
‘Cong.’s undoing’
Mr. Rama Rao said even those in the “race for Chief Minister's post” in the Congress were set to lose the election and, so, the party leaders were already looking for reasons. He cited TPCC president N. Uttam Kumar Reddy’s tweet cautioning the party rank and file that something was happening to EVMs as one such instance.
Alliance with N. Chandrababu Naidu (TDP) had caused severe damage to the prospects of the Congress, said the TRS leader.
Reacting to Mr Lagadapati Rajagopal’s survey, Mr. Rama Rao said the former had said statehood to Telangana was not possible, but it became a reality. He would also go wrong now. “Statehood to Telangana had made Mr. Rajagopal quit politics and, after the Telangana election results are out, he will be forced to wind up psephology and other survey exercises ,” Mr. Rama Rao said.
On missing of names from voter list, Mr. Rama Rao said even a large number of TRS sympathisers had complained of it and hoped that the election authorities would not repeat such mistakes at least during coming Lok Sabha elections.
