Telangana election result recap: Congress ends 10-year rule of BRS; secures 64 seats. | 10 points to know
KCR-led BRS has been ruling the state since 2014 when Telangana was carved out of Andhra Pradesh. 2. Telangana Congress party chief Revanth Reddy who won from Kodangal constituency with a margin of over 32,000 votes defeating his nearest BRS rival Patnam Narender Reddy addressed a press conference and said that the national party's responsibility has increased.
"On December 3, 4 crore Telangana people have given a verdict. Now democracy has been strengthened," Reddy said. Also Read: Telangana Elections Result 2023: 10 key things which helped Congress win in the state 3.
Three BJP Lok Sabha members from Telangana who contested the assembly elections lost the polls while three Congress Lok Sabha members and a BRS MP, who fought the state election, emerged victorious. BJP national general secretary and Lok Sabha member Bandi Sanjay Kumar lost from Karimnagar, BJP's Nizamabad MP D Arvind was defeated in Koratla, and BJP Lok Sabha member from Adilabad Soyam Bapu Rao lost Boath constituency. 4.
State Congress president A Revanth Reddy, who is a Lok Sabha member from Malkajgiri, won from Kodangal, he had also contested from the Kamareddy seat but lost. Congress Lok Sabha members Komatireddy Venkat Reddy and N Uttam Kumar Reddy won from Nalgonda and Huzurnagar, respectively. BRS Lok Sabha member from Medak Kotha Prabhakar Reddy won from the Dubbak assembly segment.
5. BJP candidate Katipally Venkata Ramana Reddy became the giant killer of the Telangana Legislative Assembly election, as he defeated outgoing Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao and PCC president A Revanth Reddy from the Kamareddy constituency. Venkata Ramana Reddy defeated KCR, his nearest rival, by a margin of 6,741 votes.
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