The Congress party has put up a stellar performance in Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe reserved constituencies in Assembly elections in Telangana winning as many as 23 out of 31 seats.
A look at the statistics shows that 14 out of the 19 SC candidates fielded by the party won with handsome margins. Similarly, nine ST candidates triumphed out of the 12 constituencies. The Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) was relegated to the background as its five SC candidates and three ST candidates won the seats. The Bharatiya Janata Party drew a blank despite fielding candidates in all the 31 reserved constituencies.
Of the 64 winning candidates, a sizeable number of MLAs come from the reserved constituencies. In the 2018 elections, the Congress has won two SC and four ST seats and remaining seats went to the BRS.
