Hyderabad: Telangana may not go to the polls in 2028 as scheduled. Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy has said the next assembly elections are likely to be pushed to May-June 2029, once the delimitation of constituencies is completed — a remark that has set off a fresh round of political calculations in the state.
Speaking to reporters on Friday, the Chief Minister argued that with Parliament taking up the delimitation exercise, the redrawing of boundaries and the expansion of the assembly would inevitably spill into the current government’s final year. Telangana’s house is expected to grow from 119 seats to 182 after the exercise, and Revanth Reddy exuded confidence that the Congress would win more than 117 of those expanded seats.
A message to the opposition
The Chief Minister coupled his election arithmetic with a pointed message to the BRS, saying political battles should be reserved for the final months of a government’s term rather than allowed to disrupt daily administration. The opposition, he said, should let the government function instead of growing impatient over losing power.
BRS leaders have dismissed the 2029 timeline as wishful thinking, accusing the Congress of preparing the ground to cling to office beyond its mandate. The party maintains that the government’s performance, not the calendar, will decide its fate.
Governance push in the backdrop
The poll talk comes even as the government projects momentum on the economic front. This week the Chief Minister inaugurated a next-generation solar module manufacturing facility at Seetharampur in Rangareddy district, describing it as a building block of the Telangana Rising 2047 vision. He repeated his ambition of Telangana contributing 10 per cent of the country’s GDP by 2047, and urged investors to use the state’s Future City policies to expand.
Whether the elections come in 2028 or 2029, the Chief Minister’s comments make one thing clear: delimitation is no longer a distant constitutional exercise. It is now the axis around which Telangana’s politics — seat-sharing, candidate selection and even the timing of welfare announcements — will turn for the next two years.
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