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Senior leaders Komatireddy Venkat Reddy, Komatireddy Rajgopal Reddy, N Uttam Kumar Reddy and K Jana Reddy (for his son Jayaveer Reddy) handled the campaigns in their constituencies

Though the counting was smooth up to 18th round, tension began mounting from the 19th round when the majority of Kamalakar started declining.

The lone female nominee of the BRS in the erstwhile district emerged victorious even as her party candidates from eight Assembly constituencies were defeated by the opponents

We respect the people’s mandate. The result is not what we desired and I appeal to the BRS leaders and cadre not to get disheartened. We will bounce back stronger, said KT Rama Rao

While four-time MLA and BRS working president KT Rama Rao retained his Sircilla seat, BC welfare and Civil Supplies minister Gangula Kamalakar also got re-elected for the fourth time from the Karimnagar segment

The party's candidates could not register victory from any constituency till 2018.

The congress nominee Kokkirala Premsagar Rao won against BJP candidate V Raghunath Rao from Mancherial segment by a margin of 66,116 votes.

The CPI, which contested the lone constituency of Kothagudem, the headquarters of Singareni Collieries, as part of the electoral alliance with the Congress, won the seat after two terms

Harish Rao, who won with a thumping majority of 83,025 votes over his nearest rival, Congress candidate Pujala Harikrishna, however had to end up with a lesser majority than the previous three assembly elections

Kotha Prabhakar Reddy credited his victory to the party cadre and party president K Chandrashekhar Rao

Of the seven, three including Ch Malla Reddy from Medchal, K P Vivekanand from Quthbullapur and first-timer and daughter of late G Sayyanna from Secunderabad Cantonment, G Lasya Nanditha, have been declared winners while the rest of the four are leading with big margins

BRS tasted victory in 11 of the 14 constituencies where it had replaced its candidates with fresh faces

He won the seat by a massive margin of 85,576 votes over his rival Kuna Srisailam Goud.

Taking to X (formerly Twitter), KTR said that Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) is grateful to the people of Telangana for giving two consecutive terms of Government in the State.

In second place is BJP’s Chenaboyanna Krishna Yadav with 25,558. Congress’s Dr. Rohin Kumar secured only 11,064 votes. 

In Sanathnagar, BRS candidate Talasani Srinivas Yadav is in the lead with 4330 votes and Danam Nagendra with 3539 votes for Khairatabad.

The counting of votes polled for the 119 assembly constituencies has begun at 8 am on Sunday. The votes locked in the EVMs will be taken up for counting by 9 am. The counting of votes is being carried out at 49 centers.

With the counting of votes slated to be held on Sunday, party sources said all Congress candidates were asked to reach Hyderabad and camp at a private hotel in the city.

Tension prevailed for a while when cadres of BJP and BSP staged dharnas in Kaghaznagar on Thursday.

BRS has lodged a complaint with the Election Commission of India against the Congress accusing the latter of using deepfake technology to create false content, targeting BRS leaders and candidates contesting in the Assembly elections