Published 12:33 IST, December 3rd 2023
Telangana Election Results 2023: Congress 'hand' stops BRS 'car'
Telangana Election Results 2023: The ‘hand’ of the Congress party has stopped the Bharat Rashtra Samiti (BRS) ‘car’ in Telangana as per counting trends.
The ‘hand’ of the Congress party has stopped the Bharat Rashtra Samiti (BRS) ‘car’ in Telangana as the election commission counting trends showed the grand old party comfortably reaching the majority mark.
The Congress is leading on 65 seats while the BRS on 38 and the BJP leading on 10, as per ECI.
Telangana Congress President, Anumula Revanth Reddy is leading from the Kamareddy seat leaving CM KCR trailing behind.
Revanth Reddy is MP in the Lok Sabha from Congress representing Malkajgiri Constituency. Earlier, he was a two-time MLA in the Andhra Pradesh Assembly from TDP in 2009 and 2014 and in the Telangana Assembly between 2014 and 2018 representing Kodangal Constituency.
He left TDP and joined Congress in 2017. In June 2021, he was appointed as president of the Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee replacing N. Uttam Kumar Reddy.
Telangana Election Results 2023: KTR leading Sircilla seat
Kalvakuntla Taraka Rama Rao (KTR) is leading from Sircilla, which is considered one of the most important seats. KTR fought from the same seat in the 2018 elections and won.
Payal Shanker from BJP is leading on the Adilabad seat while Dhanpal Suryanarayana leading from Nizamabad (Urban). Jaffar Hussain from AIMIM is leading on the Yakutpura seat.
Celebrations were seen outside the Congress office in Hyderabad over the party crossing the halfway mark comfortably. The party cadre chanted "Bye bye KCR".
The Telangana election results will be important for the Congress as it heads into the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. A win in Karnataka and Telangana would further concrete its presence in the South.
Updated 13:43 IST, December 3rd 2023