Congress Party's Success: The 40-day election battle resulted in a significant victory for the Congress party, doubling its tally.
BRS Party's Decline: The BRS party experienced a setback, halving its tally compared to the last election.
BJP's Resilience: The BJP increased its tally, indicating continued attraction in the state.
Democratic Accountability: The results reflect the democratic aspirations of the people, emphasizing that parties cannot take anything for granted.
Impact of Exit Polls: The results validate the significance of exit polls, serving the purpose of preparing winners and losers for the outcome.
Surprise Result in Kamareddy: A notable result in Kamareddy, where a local candidate defeated the prospective and incumbent chief ministers, emphasizing the importance of genuine connections with voters.
Lesson from Kamareddy Result: The outcome underscores that promises, when halfheartedly delivered, may not win votes; voters appreciate those who are consistently in touch and provide assistance in times of need.
Anti-Incumbency Factor: The severe anti-incumbency sentiment became evident in the results, showcasing the unpredictable nature of voters.
Party Hoppers and Indifferent Results: The results were indifferent to party hoppers, with a majority of them facing rejection.
Hyderabad's Unique Dynamics: In Hyderabad, visible development and support from Muslim voters loyal to AIMIM influenced the results.
Rural Voters' Discontent: Rural voters, feeling that benefits did not reach them, went against the ruling party, contributing to their disfavor.
Late Acknowledgment of Issues: The ex-Chief Minister's belated acknowledgment of issues affecting rural voters proved costly for the ruling party.
Political Maturity in Defeat: Premature and graceful acceptance of defeat showcased political maturity.
Post-Election Behavior: Hopes are expressed that any post-election analysis by losing parties should avoid underhanded tactics witnessed in previous elections.
Congress Party's Chance: The Congress party is urged to use the given chance wisely, focusing on sustainable empowerment rather than perpetuating dependency through freebies.
Call for Responsible Governance: The article concludes with a call for responsible governance and the avoidance of undermining the people's verdict as observed in previous elections in North India.
The 40 days election battle has given resounding results, resounding for the Congress party in doubling its tally and resounding for the BRS party for halving its tally since the last election. It is also resounding for the BJP for significantly increasing it's tally showing once again that the BJP still has some attraction in this state.
As usual the results uphold the democratic aspirations of the people and have succeeded in ensuring democratic accountability of the parties and have warned that they cannot take anything for granted.
The results have also proved that exit polls cannot be just brushed aside howsoever regretted by the parties which give them thumb down. They seem to have served the purpose of preparing both the winners and particularly the losers for the outcome.
The highlight of the results is of course the result of Kamareddy in which the local candidate for the first time in the electoral history of India has defeated the prospective chief minister and also the incumbent chief minister. The take away from this particular result is that neither the promises made nor the halfheartedly delivered can win votes and the voters favour those who are in constant touch with them and come to their rescue in times of need like Covid during which this particular winner from kamareddy is said to have rendered extra ordinary selfless services to the people. A lesson both the winners and the losers should learn.
At the same time, as expected by the Congress party, the result is not a landslide. At the same time, for the BRS the result is a good lesson to learn and contains a hope that they were taught the lesson but were not rejected stock, lock and barrel.
Everybody knew that there was anti-incombency but the results proved that it was so severe and that the genius of the voters is inscrutable.
The results have been indifferent to the party hoppers though majority of them were shown the door.
Through out the State, the winners and the losers have received balanced outcomes except in Hyderabad in which the visible development on the one hand and the Muslim voters loyal to AIMIM have paid off.
The rural voters have gone against the BRS betrying the suspicion that the benefits channeled to the people have not reached them, a factor that usually contributes to disfavour for the ruling party. This fear has been expressed by the ex Chief Minister rather too late and delay has cost him dearly.
Premature and graceful acceptance of the defeat and its reception has raised the political maturity to a new height.
Though the losing parties will now begin post mortem of the results, it is hoped that underhandedness witnessed in upending the people's verdict as has been case in the North India in the previous Assembly elections will be avoided.
The one chance sought by the Congress party and given should not be frittered away and should not be restricted to doling out freebies that won them the win but should endeavour to lay down a path of sustainable empowerment rather than perpetuating dependency as has been the case thus far.
Dr M H Prasad Rao
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