Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy compared the Congress’s performance in the Lok Sabha polls in Telangana with Ugadi Pacchadi — a mix of tastes, good and bad. Addressing the media at his residence here on Wednesday, Revanth Reddy expressed his happiness over the Congress winning eight out of the 17 Lok Sabha seats and the Secunderabad Cantonment assembly seat in Telangana a day ago.
He expressed his disappointment over the Congress’s failure to retain the Malkajgiri Lok Sabha seat that he represented till recently, and the Mahbubnagar Lok Sabha seat in his home district. "I, as TPCC chief and as Chief Minister, take the responsibility for the party's victory and defeat in every election. I take the Lok Sabha poll results as Ugadi Pacchadi, a mixture of six different tastes — sweet, sour, salty, pungent, spicy and bitter.
We won eight seats and lost seats like Malkajgiri and Mahabubnagar," he remarked. Revanth Reddy referred to his previous statement that he considered the verdict in the TS Lok Sabha polls a referendum on the 100-day performance of the Congress government in the state. "Prior to the issuing of the Lok Sabha election notification, I announced that Lok Sabha elections are a referendum on the performance of the Congress government.
We implemented 5 out of 6 guarantees we gave the voters during the assembly polls within 100 days of our assumption of office and sought votes in LS polls based on our performance this year. The Congress won eight out of the 17 L.
