Who Will Be Telangana Chief Minister? 3 Congress Leaders Are Frontrunners

Hyderabad: 

India’s youngest state, Telangana, has seen just one party at the helm since its birth in 2014 – the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (formerly the Telangana Rashtra Samiti). But that will soon change as the Congress comprehensively defeated BRS in the assembly polls whose results were declared yesterday.   

The Congress won 65 seats in the 119-member Telangana assembly, while the BRS got only 39.

But the party is yet to announce a Chief Minister candidate, and the Congress high command is expected to make an announcement soon.

Revanth Reddy’s style of functioning as Telangana Congress chief earned him several detractors within the party ranks, but the 54-year-old marshalled his troops well enough to dethrone BRS in the southern state. The party fielded him against Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao in the elections, an indication of his rising stature within the state.

Following his appointment as Telangana Congress chief in July 2021, Mr Reddy was increasingly visible on the ground, leading street protests on a host of issues against the ruling BRS government.