Telangana Assembly Election Results 2023 Highlights: Congress manages to get back support of Muslim community in Unprecedented Seats Since 2018

A sizeable Muslim wave helped Congress win in many seats unlike in 2018 when the community had backed BRS. Among the seats Congress won is Warangal West, which it had not won in last four polls. There are over 60,000 voters from the community here. Similarly, their vote helped Congress beat sitting BRS MLAs in Mahbubnagar, Huzurnagar, Warangal East, Khammam, Bodhan, Ibrahimpatnam, Shadnagar, Ramagundam, Nizamabad Rural and Nalgonda. But it was a different story in Greater Hyderabad and surrounding areas, where they backed BRS and its ally AIMIM. Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi-led AIMIM retained all its seven seats of Nampally, Charminar, Yakutpura, Chandrayangutta, Karwan, Bahadurpura and Malakpet. Revanth Reddy's Congress delegation, victorious in Telangana's assembly elections, met Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan, initiating the government formation process. With a decisive majority, Revanth Reddy emerges as the potential Chief Minister amid preparations for the swearing-in ceremony, despite controversies surrounding police suspension.Telangana becomes the second southern state in Congress' kitty in 2023, after it emerged triumphant in Karnataka in May. Having registered a virtually unassailable lead against the ruling BRS, the Mallikarjun Kharge-led party won 47 seats and was ahead in another 17, according to latest Election Commission figures. The BRS, which has 101 members in the outgoing Assembly, emerged victorious in 22 and was leading in 17 others. Chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao submitted his resignation with the Governor following his party's poor performance. Anumula Revanth Reddy, who led the Congress' charge, finds himself on the brink of a potential chief ministership. The 56 year-old leader met top police officials of the state and discussed the security arrangements for the swearing-in ceremony, likely on December 4 or 9. He welcomed the people's mandate in favour of the national party while BRS expressed disappointment over its failure to ensure a hattrick. The KCR-led Bharat Rashtra Samiti (BRS) formed the maiden government of the newly carved out Telangana in 2014 and emerged victorious in 2018 as well. "It is a people's mandate. Factors such as anti-incumbency, voter fatigue, and dissatisfaction among the youth contributed mainly to the poor showing of BRS. Despite the towering image of CM KCR, along with the party's extensive grassroots network and welfare programmes, the perceived inaccessibility of its leaders contributed to the growing anti-incumbency sentiments. Additionally, the opposition projection of what they called the BRS family rule in the state further exacerbated this sentiment. The Congress had mounted a spirited election campaign with a view to unseat BRS, even as the BJP also launched a no holds-barred attack against the ruling dispensation. The BJP bettered its tally, winning 6 seats and leading in 2 other segments, according to an EC update. It has 3 members in the outgoing Assembly. AIMIM won 5 seats and was leading in 2. Stay with TOI for the latest developments