One of the major contentions put forward by Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu in the Mahakutami campaign was that he was responsible for the development of Hyderabad and Hi-Tech city in particular.

At the time of campaigning, yellow media highlighted IT youth who had attended Naidu’s meetings with placards which read, “We are in Hyderabad because of you.”

But the election results in Hyderabad too have come as a complete surprise as Chandrababu failed to win the trust of the voters even in Hyderabad, the city he had developed.

This means that Chandrababu can no longer bank on his ‘development theory’ anymore as the people who according to him benefitted from his administration have not voted for him.

Hyderabad: With the ruling TRS party’s massive win in the Telangana Assembly elections, Chief Minister K. Chandrashekhar Rao’s son K.T. Rama Rao on Tuesday thanked the people of the state for giving them another opportunity to serve.

“Grateful, indebted and humbled. Thanks Telangana for keeping the faith in KCR Garu and giving us another opportunity to serve you,” tweeted Rama Rao, a Minister in his father’s cabinet

Popularly known as KTR, Rama Rao appears set to retain the Sircilla seat.

Seen as KCR’s successor, the young leader arrived at the Telangana Rashtra Samithi headquarters here to a warm welcome by hundreds of party workers.

Congress’ top netas have rushed to Hyderabad ahead of the people’s verdict in Telangana. While TRS is extremely confident of marching to victory on its own, Congress leaders speculate that they could form the government with the help of independents/rebels along with Praja Kutami.

Amidst this, Congress trouble shooters Ghulam Nabi Azad, DK Shivakumar (from Karnataka) have already reached Hyderabad. Another senior leader Jairam Ramesh and Sonia Gandhi’s close aide Ahmed Patel are expected to fly down to Hyderabad today.

Interestingly, Congress has kept chopper for airlifting of MLAs if needed and even independents who would like to support Prajakutami. Congress camp is all set to protect its winning MLAs against poaching. At the same time, it is all set to lift MLAs if there is a fractured verdict.

Congress is on high-alert after it faced bad experience in government formation in Goa and Meghalaya earlier.

A special chopper has been hired and is kept on stand by at a secret location in neighbouring Karnataka. DK Shiva Kumar, who had played a key role in JDS-Congress post-poll alliance in Karnataka, has been assigned the task of organizing the ‘camp’ for winners from Kutami and to keep them safe. Depending on the situation, DK Shiva Kumar might shift the Kutami candidates to Bengaluru or any other place in Karnataka if a fractured verdict is in offing.

Already, Congress has passed strict orders to all its candidates and summoned them to report by today evening. Local leaders have been assigned the responsibility of bringing the winning candidates.

TRS is all set to sweep Telangana. Going by the poll trends, TRS is leading in 86 seats, while Praja Kutami (Congress, TDP) is leading in meager 21 seats. BJP is leading in 4 seats, MIM is leading in 5 seats. This is a clear indication that Telanganites in unison voted for TRS.

Congress senior leaders like Revanth Reddy, Jana Reddy, Komatireddy Venkat Reddy, DK Aruna, Shabbir Ali, Geetha Reddy, Konda Surekha are trailing. Senior leader Jeevan Reddy lost by over 30,000 votes in the hands of TRS candidate Sanjay Kumar in Jagityal.

TDP is leading in only Sathupally and Aswaraopet Assembly constituencies. It is trailing in Kukatpally, Serlingampally, Rajendra Nagar, Uppal, Ibrahimpatnam.

Just a day before the counting day, KTR has changed his profile pic on his twitter handle. He is seen holding a gun like a sharp shooter. As the adage says “pictures speak louder than words”, many are discussing about the intention behind updating this pic.

KTR has been very confident about the triumphant victory of TRS and he has been reiterating the same in every media byte. Even after the Lagadapati’s survey report before the elections, KTR responded swiftly on his twitter handle, implying that the survey need not be believed.

He has updated this gun shooting pic, only to convey that he is going to win and TRS has perfectly aimed at the victory. The present victory of TRS has added value to this pic.