Hyderabad: The highly anticipated result of the recently held Telangana elections will be out today with the Election Commission (EC) geared up to push out the results across 119 Assembly constituencies.
The Counting of Telangana polls began at 8 am today, with early trends giving Congress a solid lead in the state with BRS, BJP, and AIMIM following the grand old party respectively.
The grand old party registered its first win at Aswaraopeta (ST) as its candidate Jare Adinarayana wins over BRS candidate Mecha Nageswara Rao by over 23000 votes.
As many as 2,290 contestants are in the fray in the elections, including BRS chief and incumbent chief minister Chandrasekhar Rao, his minister-son KT Rama Rao, TPCC president A Revanth Reddy, and BJP Lok Sabha members Bandi Sanjay Kumar, D Arvind and Soyam Bapu Rao.
LIVE tally:
| Parties | Lead | Win |
| BRS | 41 | |
| Congress | 65 | 02 |
| AIMIM | 4 | |
| BJP | 8 | |
| Others | 0 |
LIVE blog:
11:56 AM: Congress candidate Koram Kanakaiah wins from Yellandu (ST), trumps BRS’ Haripriya Banoth
11:55 AM: Senior Congress leader Komatireddy Venkat Reddy leading from Nalgonda.
11:50 AM: Congress candidate Mohammad Azharuddin is trailing by 1050 votes at Jubilee Hills where BRS sitting MLA Mangati Gopinath is leading after 3 rounds of counting.
11:47 AM: BRS’ Gudem Mahipal in lead over Congress’ Kata Sreenivas Goud after 4 rounds of counting in Patancheru.
11:44 AM: Congress MP Uttam Kumar Reddy says, “Congress will form the government. There is a special place for the Gandhi family in the hearts of the Telangana people. We made a mistake in the 2014 and 2018 elections. This time, we corrected ourselves, and we are on the way to victory. Second is the incompetence, arrogance, the corruption of the BRS government…”
11:41 AM: Congress MP Uttam Kumar Reddy says, “Congress will form the government. There is a special place for the Gandhi family in the hearts of the Telangana people. We made a mistake in the 2014 and 2018 elections. This time, we corrected ourselves, and we are on the way to victory. Second is the incompetence, arrogance, the corruption of the BPR government…”
11:39 AM: Celebrations outside Telangana Congress chief Revanth Reddy’s residence in Hyderabad as the party leads in official trends
11:39 AM: Congress registers first win from Aswaraopeta (ST) as its candidate Jare Adinarayana wins over BRS candidate Mecha Nageswara Rao by over 23000 votes.
11:26 AM: 6 cabinet ministers, Indrakaran Reddy, Puvvada Ajay, Niranjan Reddy, Erraballi Dayakar Rao, Prashant Reddy, and Koppula Eshwar in the BRS cabinet are currently trailing from their seats
11:18 AM: KTR leading from Sircilla by over 5000 votes (5 rounds)
11:17 AM: BJP’s Raja Singh leading in Goshamahal by over 3000 votes (6 rounds), BRS in over 5000 votes lead in Malkajgiri (3 rounds)
11:08 AM: Congress’ Kata Sreenivas Goud leading on BRS sitting MLA Gudem Mahipal in Patancheru..
11:05 AM: Karne Shirisha, popularly known as Barrelakka trailing in Kollapur, Congress’ Jupally Krishna Rao leading
10:59 AM: BJP leader N V Subhash says, “In elections, whatever mandate people give us is acceptable. As far as the Congress party is concerned, if you look near their political hub… they have kept so many buses there. That means that they are not confident in the MLAs who are supposed to be winning…”
10:46 AM: Congress cadre burst firecrackers outside the office of the party’s state unit in Hyderabad as the party leads on 52 seats in Telangana.
10:44 AM: Revanth leading over KCR at Kamareddy by over 2000 votes, leading in Kodangal by over 7000 votes
10:37 AM: BJP leading in 4 seats in Hyderabad
10:35 AM: AIMIM’s Ahmed Balala leading from Malakpet, BRS’ Talasani Srinivas Yadav and Muta Gopal leading from Sanathnagar and Musheerabad respectively.
10:34 AM: Luxury buses have been stationed at Hyderabad’s Taj Krishna. On buses stationed at Hyderabad’s Taj Krishna, Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee Vice President, Kiran Kumar Chamala says, “You all know KCR style of functioning, poaching is his main agenda. So we have taken some measurements, but after seeing the result today, the trends and everything. Such activity is not needed because at least we will have 80 plus seats…Everything is fine. We are very happy today…”
10:31 AM: BJP’s Eatala Rajender trailing in both Huzurabad and Gajwel
10:29 AM: Congress’ Mynampally Rohit leading from Medak
10:25 AM: Congress, its ally CPI leading in all ten seats in Khammam district
10:20 AM: Congress’ Jagga Reddy trailing in Sangareddy
10:15 AM: BRS’ Devireddy Sudheer Reddy leading in LB Nagar by over 3000 votes.
10:03 AM: As Congress leads in #TelanganaAssemblyElection2023, Congress leader Renuka Chowdhury says, “I had been saying for more than a year because we tapped into the pulse of the public. We understood that a big change is going to come and that is what is happening…Victory is ours, I am very confident…People were tired of BRS. BJP and BRS are one – everyone understood it. They also understand the dangerous role that AIMIM played. I think AIMIM, Owaisi has suffered the biggest loss in this game. People understood the truth behind the wrong step he took at the national level. It is unfortunate because I had always considered him to be an intelligent man…When Congress contests unitedly, no force in the country can stand against us…”
