April 30th Telangana elections – Rewriting the History of AP

A historic Moment for the State of Andhra Pradesh as it goes to polls tomorrow - April 30th.The Votes polled tomorrow will decide the fate of who will govern the state of Telangana which will officially become a State after June 2nd. And these elections are going to be decisive factor. A total of 119 Assembly seats and 17 Parliamentary seats and more than 29 million voters are part of this electoral battle. The major contending parties are the Congress, the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-Telugu Desam Party (TDP) combine, JSP ,CPI (M) ,BDP, Lok Satta, Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM),AAP and several independent candidates who are in the fray.

The election campaign had been quite a battle where we saw the leaders in the best of their histrionics –read making samosas, iron clothes, sweep roads and other antics to woo the voters.Whether the voters fall for this will be known after the results come out. The major political players like Naidu, Jagan, Kiran Kumar, and the Congress leaders had traded barbs at each other with each leader trying to claim credit for the bifurcation of the State. The new rebel entrant in the form of Power star Pawan Kalyan who was the star campaigner for the TDP-BJP alliance ,with his novel approach to politics will have considerable influence on the first time young voters.

The 60 year old dream of Separate Telangana will finally become a reality and once the counting is over on May 16th, India and Andhra Pradesh will witness the historic separation of two regions into Telangana and the Rest of Andhra Pradesh.