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After clinching 64 seats in the 119-seat assembly, a delegation of Congress leaders on Sunday met Telangana Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan and staked claim to form the government in the state.

The State had gone to polls on November 30, and registered a polling percentage of 71.34. Counting began in 49 counting centres at 8 am on Sunday.

The Congress won 9 out of the 12 seats reserved for the Scheduled Tribes and 15 out of the 19 seats reserved for the Scheduled Castes.

Out of ten Assembly seats in erstwhile Khammam district, BRS has won one seat as the party candidate Dr. Tellam Venkata Rao won in the Bhadrachalam assembly seat

Transport Minister Puvvada Ajay Kumar was defeated by the former minister Tummala Nageswara Rao with a margin of 50, 130 votes

A formal swearing in ceremony with a couple of leaders is likely to take place at Raj Bhavan on Monday

The Congress won a decisive mandate in the country’s youngest State of Telangana, wresting power from the BRS with its ‘maarpu kaavali’ slogan after counting was completed for the 119 constituencies in the State on Sunday

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

The saving grace for the BRS was the victory in the Alampur and Gadwal constituencies

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

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.

In the composite Warangal district, the Congress party has achieved a significant victory, securing ten out of twelve assembly constituencies.

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

Lastly, he appreciated the efforts and hard work of party workers and thanked them.

The Congress' plans to wrest power from the BJP were shattered as the grand old party has managed to surge ahead in only 59 of the 230 seats in the assembly.

Big celebrations were seen at the residence of Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC) president A. Revanth Reddy’s residence and party headquarters in Gandhi Bhavan.

The Congress candidates have established leads in 63 constituencies, while ruling Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) was ahead only in 43 segments.

The BJP was ahead in 23 seats and the ruling Congress was leading in 18 seats in elections to the Chhattisgarh assembly, the Election Commission said.

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.