Hyderabad: After clinching the Battle for Telangana, K Chandrashekar Rao will take oath as the Chief Minister of Telangana on Thursday at 1:24 PM.
The TRS emerged victorious in the Telangana Assembly elections on Tuesday, bagging 88 seats out of the 119-member assembly.
Rao, commonly known as KCR won from Gajwel constituency by over 50,000 votes while TRS candidate Talasani Srinivas Yadav, a minister in Rao’s government, has won from Sanath Nagar constituency by 30,217 votes. KCR son, KT Rama Rao, won from Sircilla with a margin of 89,909.
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Prajakutami, an alliance of the Congress and Telugu Desam Party (TDP) won 21 seats while the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) bagged only one seat. All India Majlis-E-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) won 7 seats.
On December 7, single-phase elections were held in Telangana, wherein 73.2% voter turnout was recorded.