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Telangana: Stunning setback

KCR has paid for his complacency and overconfidence following the December 2018 assembly election.

Buoyed by the Telangana Rashtra Samithi's (TRS) superlative performance in the December 2018 state electionit won 88 of the state's 119 seatsTRS supremo and chief minister K. Chandrasekhara Rao, or KCR, was perhaps justified in claiming his party would sweep all 17 seats in the Lok Sabha election.

As it turned out, the party managed nine

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