The coalition between TDP-BJP seems to have worked well in Greater Hyderabad as the combine secured 14 of the 24 Assembly constituencies, while the MIM bagged seven and TRS three.
Winning support from city voters, specifically settlers from the Seemandhra region, and an alliance with BJP, the TDP secured nine Assembly constituencies emerging as the largest party in the city.
It is interesting to know that, of the total seats the party secured in Telangana, the majority came from Hyderabad.
In the 2009 elections, TDP had won only one Assembly segment, i.e. Rajendranagar, and the party leaders are jubilant over its performance in segments like Serlingampally, Kukatpally, Maheshwaram, Sanatnagar, Rajendranagar, LB Nagar, Qutubullapur, Jubilee Hills and Secunderabad Cantonment.
Likewise, BJP has bagged five Assembly seats in the city, the party’s highest-ever in Greater Hyderabad.
The BJP had secured four seats in alliance with the TDP in the 1999 elections.
Congress, which had 14 seats in the 2009 Assembly, drew a blank and, at many places, party candidates were downgraded to third position at places like Musheerabad, Secunderabad, Amberpet, Serilingampally, Sanatnagar, LB Nagar and Qutubullapur Assembly constituencies.
City-based ministers and senior Congress leaders M Mukesh Goud (Goshamahal) and Danam Nagender (Khairatabad) had to give up the ghost at the hustings and both these segments were bagged by BJP candidates.
V Hanmantha Rao, Senior Congress leader and Rajya Sabha MP lost the election with a huge majority and came a poor third in the Amberpet Assembly constituency.
The MIM managed to retain its seven seats (Charminar, Chandrayangutta, Karwan, Malakpet, Bahadurpura, Nampally and Yakutpura), whereas BJP secured five seats (Khairtabad, Goshamahal, Uppal Musheerabad and Amberpet).
The party had only a seat from Amberpet in the 2009 Assembly, which was represented by BJP state unit chief G Kishan Reddy, and this time he could retain the seat.
TRS make it by winning three seats – Malkajgiri, Secunderabad and Patancheru — in the city.
TRS Greater Hyderabad president T Padma Rao won the Secunderabad seat with a majority of 25,979 votes over his nearest opponent from TDP Kuna Venkatesh Goud. Cine actor and sitting MLA Jayasudha Kapoor had to content her with third place.
In Patancheru Assembly constituency, TRS nominee G Maipal Reddy won the seat with 18,886 votes over his TDP competitor, M Sapandev.
TRS had won two Assembly seats—Secunderabad and Musheerabad—in the 2004 assembly election, then with an alliance with the Congress. This time it could secure the two seats without support or coalition with any party.
In this election, TRS candidates, Muta Gopal (Musheerabad), B Subhash Reddy (Uppal), G Padma Rao (Kukatpally), K Sudhakar Reddy (Amberpet), K Shankar Goud (Serilingampally) and K Hanmanth Reddy (Qutubullapur) gave tough fight to the winning candidates.
When it comes to majority, Serlingamapally TDP candidate Arikepudi Gandhi won with a record margin of 73,167 votes over his TRS rival K Shanker Goud followed by BJP leader G Kishan Reddy, who won with a margin of 61,692 votes over his TRS rival A Sudhakar Reddy.