Key Points
The BJP which won just one seat in the 2018 Telangana assembly polls, has almost doubled its vote share and bettered its seat tally in the southern state in the hustings that comes months ahead of next year's Lok Sabha polls..
The saffron party's vote share surged from 7 per cent in 2018 to 13.88 per cent in the present assembly polls even as its number of seats has gone up to eight..
The party also won two by-polls, giving it three members in the outgoing assembly...
Controversial legislator T Raja Singh is the only BJP candidate from the city who won in 2018 assembly polls and has repeated his feat this time..
The allegations of a tacit understanding between the BRS and BJP, especially with regard to the Delhi excise policy case in which Chief Minister KCR's daughter Kavitha faced some allegations, had weakened the BJP, making anti-establishment votes consolidate in favour of Congress in the polls...
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