Andhra Pradesh, which sends 25 MPs to the Lok Sabha, also witnessed a simultaneous Assembly election in which both Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) were wiped out. YSR Congress swept both Assembly as well as Lok Sabha polls with one-sided victories of on 22 Lok Sabha and 151 Assembly constituencies. In 2014, the erstwhile united Andhra Pradesh was bifurcated and Telangana was carved out of it. Following the bitter bifurcation, Andhra Pradesh lost its cash cow - Hyderabad. While the state was being bifurcated, the then Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, promised Special Category Status (SCS) to Andhra Pradesh, post the division.

Source: dna June 10, 2019 01:41 UTC