Telangana BJP president and Union Minister G. Kishan Reddy said while the party “respects” the people’s mandate, the Congress did not score a “landslide victory”.
“It is a vote against Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao and his family, and this has helped the Congress to win. We won just one seat in 2018 and eight this time. We had 6.9% vote share in the last elections and it has crossed 14%, so we saw a 100% jump in voting percentage. It is much more than what the Congress scored,” he added.
Mr.Reddy, who chose to talk to the media in Kamareddy where party candidate K.Venkatramana Reddy won against Mr.Rao as well as Congress State president A.Revanth Reddy, said the party would have benefitted if seniors like national general secretary Bandi Sanjay Kumar, Eatala Rajender, M.Raghunandan Rao and others had won but it is “unfortunate” that they didn’t.
