Election Results 2024: Naidu set to become CM of Andhra Pradesh for fourth time, complete rout for Jagan’s YSRCP
The Hindu
election results 2024: Chandrababu Naidu set to become Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister for fourth term after TDP's landslide victory.
Telugu Desam Party’s national president Nara Chandrababu Naidu is all set to become the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh for the fourth time after handing a crushing defeat to Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy’s YSR Congress Party in the Assembly election held simultaneously with the general election in the State.
The TDP, which is now part of the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) along with the State’s Jana Sena Party (JSP), secured 116 seats and was in clear lead in about 20 seats. The Pawan Kalyan-led JSP handsomely chipped in by winning 16 seats and leading in five, while the BJP secured victories in five and led in three, by 7 p.m. on Tuesday. The trend puts the NDA on course to win 165 of the total 175 seats in the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly.
On the other hand, the YSRCP had won just one seat and was leading in nine, and could be reduced to a minority with about 10 seats. It will not even have the status of Opposition party in the Assembly as the minimum requirement is 18 seats.
As part of the seat-sharing arrangement, the TDP contested in 144 of 175 seats, while the JSP and BJP fought in 21 and 10 seats respectively.
Mr. Reddy is headed for a drubbing after he stormed to power by securing 151 of 175 seats in the 2019 election and reducing the TDP to just 23 seats.
For Mr. Naidu, Tuesday’s result is a powerful comeback, especially after he was arrested in September last year by the State police’s CID for involvement in the alleged Skill Development scam. Mr. Naidu had been the Chief Minister of united Andhra Pradesh for two terms from 1995 to 2004. He was also the first CM of the residual Andhra Pradesh after its bifurcation in 2014.
From the results, it has become clear that a huge anti-incumbency wave had uprooted Mr. Reddy despite him successfully going ahead with many welfare schemes during his tenure.
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