1989 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly Election
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In the 1989 United Andhra Pradesh Assembly election,
Indian National Congress The Indian National Congress (INC), colloquially the Congress Party but often simply the Congress, is a political party in India with widespread roots. Founded in 1885, it was the first modern nationalist movement to emerge in the British Em ...
swept the polls, winning 181 of the 294 seats in the Assembly. As the leader of the Congress Legislature Party,
Marri Chenna Reddy Dr. Marri Channa Reddy (13 January 1919 – 2 December 1996) was an Indian politician active in several states. He was the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh from 1978 to 1980 and from 1989 to 1990. He also served as the governor of Uttar Pradesh ...
was elected the Chief Minister. The TDP won only 74 seats from the 216 seats won by it in 1985 because of so much anti on TDP. General Elections were held in the same year and resulted in the INC(I) winning in 39 out of 42 Lok Sabha constituencies. Its rival, the TDP won only in 2 Lok Sabha constituencies.


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Andhra Pradesh Andhra Pradesh (, abbr. AP) is a state in the south-eastern coastal region of India. It is the seventh-largest state by area covering an area of and tenth-most populous state with 49,386,799 inhabitants. It is bordered by Telangana to the ...