Divided Andhra Pradesh Loses Clout In National Politics

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[color=#ff0000][size=5]The partition of Andhra Pradesh will cause the state to lose the political clout it wielded since at least the '90s as a factor in national politics.

With 42 seats in Lok Sabha, Andhra Pradesh along with West Bengal accounts for the third biggest kitty of LS seats after UP (80) and Maharashtra (48). It climbed to the third spot after the partition of Bihar saw its share of Lok Sabha seats coming down from 54 to 40, with the rest going to Jharkhand.

After AP's bifurcation, 17 Lok Sabha seats will be allotted to Telangana, leaving the mother state with just 25 seats, the same as Rajasthan. The number of seats in what remains of AP can slip to 21 if the Congress leadership decides to club the districts of Anantapur and Kurnool with the proposed Telangana region.[/size][/color]

The heft that the number of seats equipped it with had enabled the state to be the playmaker in successive elections, especially since 1996. Telugu Desam Party under N Chandrababu Naidu emerged as the anchor of the two United Front governments.

TDP's switch to the Atal Bihari Vajpayee camp was an important factor in BJP's success in holding on to power in the mid-term LS polls in 1999.

The state, along with Tamil Nadu and Bihar, played a big role in Congress's surprise victory in 2004, with the late Y S Rajasekhara Reddy leading the party to a landslide in both Lok Sabha and state polls that year.

YSR defied incumbency and the popular wisdom to pull off an encore five years later, helping Congress to outgun the BJP decisively in the 2009 polls. In fact, both in 2004 and in 2009, the state yielded the largest chunk of MPs for not only the Congress but for any party from a single state. The party won 29 of the 42 seats in 2004 and an even more impressive 33 in 2009.

The division of AP appears to have been motivated by Congress's anxiety to retrieve its political fortunes in the state where it had looked adrift after YSR's sudden departure and because of the revolt by his son Jaganmohan, whose YSR Congress has emerged as the dominant formation in the Coastal and Rayalaseema regions.

The creation of Telangana is supposed to help Congress contain the damage by sweeping the region either on its own steam or in alliance with TRS. However, it cannot hope to get the kind of helping hand it got from AP in two back-to-back elections irrespective of whether its calculation comes true.



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[tom bhayya]

Ha ha innaallu mana mp's Edho peekinattu intha mandhi unnaru em labham

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[quote name='Alexander' timestamp='1375234791' post='1304037679']
Ha ha innaallu mana mp's Edho peekinattu intha mandhi unnaru em labham
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chekka Congress edavalaki veste em labham untadi..... Delhi Cong AP cong okkaldi okkati naakuntaru.............. adhe Regional party with big numbers vunte aa advantage untadi.....TDP dominated national politics in 90's.......AP ante oka recognition undedi....... ippudu emi ledu......... repu asalaki undadu.....


Nitish gaadu unnadu........Bihar 40 MP seats unnayi kabatte aadi bargaining power ki center is giving him funds....... Oka orissa, assam, chattisgarh, jharkhand lane oka telangana or andhra......... funds demand cheste evadu dekharu.