'We tapped into pulse of public', says Renuka Chowdhury as party crosses majority mark in Telangana

As early trends in Telangana showed the Congress crossing the half-way mark, party leader Renuka Chowdhury on Sunday said that the Congress knew a big change would come in the state as the party tapped into the pulse of the public. Speaking to ANI news agency, she said, “I had been saying for more than a year because we tapped into the pulse of the public. We understood that a big change is going to come and that is what is happening…Victory is ours, I am very confident…."

#WATCH | As Congress leads in #TelanganaAssemblyElection2023, Congress leader Renuka Chowdhury says, "I had been saying for more than a year because we tapped into the pulse of the public. We understood that a big change is going to come and that is what is happening...Victory is… pic.twitter.com/QfZgmNz5A3

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She said that people are tired of BRS and that everyone understood the BJP and BRS are one, adding, AIMIM’s Asaduddin Owaisi has suffered the biggest loss in this game. “They also understand the dangerous role that AIMIM played. I think AIMIM, Owaisi has suffered the biggest loss in this game. People understood the truth behind the wrong step he took at the national level. It is unfortunate because I had always considered him to be an intelligent man…When Congress contests unitedly, no force in the country can stand against us…,” added the Congress leader. According to News 18, the Congress was leading in 67 out of the 119 seats in Telangana as of 10:21 am for the votes polled in the November 30 Assembly elections.

The initial trends showed the national party was racing ahead of the incumbent BRS, which was leading in 40 seats. At the start of counting at 8 am, postal ballots were first taken up. BJP was ahead in 8 and others in 4 seats, respectively. The simple majority mark to form government in the southern state is 60 seats. K Chandrasekhar Rao-led Bharat Rashtra Samiti (BRS) has been in power since 2014, when Telangana was granted statehood and won the 2018 elections as well and is hopeful of a hattrick. The Congress had mounted a spirited election campaign with a view to unseat the near decade-old incumbent, even as the BJP also launched a no holds-barred attack against the ruling dispensation. With inputs from agencies