YSRCP stands first, wins 855 Panchayats

Hyderabad, July 18, 2013: Proving its popularity among the masses yet again, YSR Congress Party retained 855 of the unanimously elected 2600 Sarpanch posts when the deadline for withdrawal of nominations ended Wednesday evening in Panchayat elections.

In contrast, Congress won 715 Sarpanch posts, TDP 421 and TRS 92 attaining second, third and fourth positions respectively lagging behind YSRCP.  Others with no party affiliations bagged 517 Sarpanch posts.

Despite the conspiracy by Congress and TDP to have informal alliances to push YSRCP to the backspace in the Panchayat elections, the party supporters won majority Panchayats with people’s support.

Except for Vizianagaram district, the Congress failed to come even nearer to YSRCP in any other district in coastal and Rayala Seema areas. Even in the Chittor district to which CM belongs, YSRCP won a majority of 150 Sarpanch posts unanimously while Congress won 33 and TDP 66 Sarpanch posts. In YSR district, both Congress and TDP together won 43 Panchayats as against YSRCP winning 101 Panchayats.

The following is the chart showing positions of various parties winning the Sarpanch posts unanimously in the Panchayat elections.