When crackers went off and sweets were distributed at Gandhi Bhavan in Hyderabad, one could be excused for thinking that the Congress Party had won the elections in Bihar!
Almost all the major national media networks got their Bihar poll predictions wrong with the NDA expected to romp through while some others were in favor of a close finish.
The Bihar election results, in which the Bharatiya Janata Party has received severe drubbing, have once again come as an occasion to expose the opportunistic politics of Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu.
Irrigation Minister T Harish Rao today lashed out at the Opposition parties for making deliberate attempts to corner the government through malicious comments.
TDP Anantapur MP J C Diwakar Reddy created a flutter by making sensational comments on 'Rayala Telangana' and 'special status' to Andhra Pradesh.
Kolkata tycoon Sanjeev Goenka and Indian ODI and T20 skipper MS Dhoni have shown interest in acquiring IPL clubs which will be up for the grabs.
Critics of the NDA are quick to seize upon the Bihar defeat as yet another vindication that the 'Modi Wave' is gone. This was their similar reaction when the BJP lost to AAP in Delhi.
Some marriages are made in heaven, while some marriages get done away in courts. It is said that Karisma Kapur will finally end her marraige with Sanjay Kapur on November 25.
Right now, the ruling party at Centre is canvassing aggressively for Warangal Lok Sabha by-polls. So it is being said that the local BJP leaders have demanded the central committee to bring in power star Pawan Kalyan for the campaign.
Though BJP might have received a drubbing in Bihar Assembly polls, the chief ministers of Telugu States K Chandrasekhar Rao and N Chandrababu Naidu are seeing a new ray of hope out of this debacle.
While all eyes were on the verdict of the Bihar polls and on the major parties, it was an equally significant election also for the MIM which is trying to convert itself into a pan-Indian party and entered the political fray in Bihar for the first time.
Long ago, Mudragada Padmanabham was a member of Babu's cabinet. But that was quite a few years back. Now, Babu is back in power and Mudragada who is not in power, is active with Kapu politics.
Lagadapati Rajagopal, who is also popular knows as 'Andhra Octopus' for his accuracy in poll surveys seems to have gone wrong this time in Bihar elections.
TDP meetings at party headquarters NTR Trust Bhavan in Hyderabad are known for party chief Chandrababu Naidu's punch dialogues against TRS chief KCR.
The humiliating defeat suffered by BJP-led NDA in Bihar Assembly polls seems to be forcing TDP to give 'second thoughts' on sailing with BJP in the ensuing GHMC elections.
