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Will Telangana's exemplary economic performance help TRS politically?

Telangana's own tax revenue (OTR) is the best among all states in India, at 9 per cent of the gross state domestic product (GSDP) in 2018-19

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Abhishek Waghmare New Delhi
Almost a decade is over after the disruptive farm debt waiver was awarded by the then UPA government nationwide in 2008-09. Telangana was first to announce it at the state level after its inception, and made farm loan waiver their biggest rhetoric point after Telugu identity to convince the electorate in the 2014 assembly polls.

As a result, K Chandrashekhar Rao, the president of Telangana Rashtra Samithi and current chief minister got the keys to power. His government spent Rs 170 billion in three years on waiving off farm loans. When the last waiver tranche was paid to banks in

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