Telanagana elections: TRS Everywhere

Hyderabad, December 11: The gamble for early polls appears to have paid rich dividends as the Telangana Rashtra Samithi on Tuesday appeared to be advancing towards a two-third majority in the 119-member Assembly.

The TRS took early leads in a majority of the constituencies for which trends were available as officials counted the hundreds of thousands of votes.

The ruling party candidates were ahead of their rivals in 82 constituencies while the other major contender for power, the Congress-led People s Front, was leading in just 17 places.

People seem to have dismissed the alliance between the Congress and the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) as the four-party People s Front was heading for a drubbing.

Many top leaders of Congress were trailing in their constituencies while TDP, Telangana Jana Samithi (TJS) and Communist Party of India (CPI) were not leading in any of the constituencies they contested.