Five central ministers, including two of cabinet rank, lost the Lok Sabha elections in Seemandhra.
YSR Congress Party chief YS Jagan Mohan Reddy on Friday said the wave in favour of Narendra Modi played a role in his party`s defeat in the Seemandhra region, where the TDP-BJP combine was swept to power.
TDP`s poll campaign refrain that only Chandrababu Naidu can develop residual state of Andhra Pradesh appeared to be the lone clinching factor in the party`s stupendous poll victory in Seemandhra.
The TDP-BJP combine on Friday stormed to power in the residual state of Andhra Pradesh, commonly known as Seemandhra, as Congress was virtually wiped out in the Assembly polls which were held simultaneously with the Lok Sabha elections.
Seemandhra prefers TDP, TRS rides high on Telangana sentiment.
Counting for 42 Lok Sabha and 294 Assembly seats in undivided Andhra Pradesh will be held on Friday.
Amidst the rumpus of the national elections of 2014, the southern state of Andhra Pradesh also went to polls to elect a new assembly – or rather two new assemblies.
The Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) on Thursday made it clear that it will neither seek support from the TDP-BJP alliance nor lend support to it for government formation in Telangana.
The Telugu Desam Party established a lead on Tuesday, followed by the YSR Congress, in the elections to rural local bodies for the Seemandhra region, while Congress and Telangana Rashtra Samiti stole the limelight in the Telangana region.
In what is seen as a precursor to results of the assembly and Lok Sabha elections in Andhra Pradesh, the Congress was virtually wiped out in the municipal polls in Seemandhra but won a majority of the seats in Telangana.
Ahead of counting of votes for elections held to Lok Sabha and undivided Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly on May 16, the results of local body polls would be announced in the state.
Twelve persons, including a constable, were injured in two separate incidents in Andhra Pradesh`s Prakasam and Nellore districts, in poll-related violence even as police fired in the air to disperse clashing activists of TDP and YSR Congress, police said today.
Polling was by and large peaceful in 175 assembly and 25 Lok Sabha constituencies in 13 coastal Andhra and Rayalaseema districts of AP, in the second phase of polling today, barring incidents of violence between political parties.
Braving the scorching heat, voters of Seemandhra turned out in large numbers to exercise the franchise for Lok Sabha and Assembly elections on Wednesday.
Telugu Desam Party on Wednesday demanded re-election in at least 38 polling stations across Anantapuram, Chittoor, Kadapa and Nellore districts of Andhra Pradesh, alleging that YSR Congress indulged in booth-capturing and rigging on a massive scale.
BJP`s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi rang up TDP chief N. Chandrababu Naidu to inquire about the polling in Seemandhra.
BJP`s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi appears to be keeping a close watch on the polling process in Seemandhra on Wednesday, where his party has an electoral understanding with the TDP and is hoping for a good haul of seats for the alliance.
YSR Congress party chief YS Jagan Mohan Reddy has expressed confidence that his party will make a clean sweep in the assembly elections being held in Seemandhra region.