Telangana election results: Hits and Flops

K T Rama Rao | 47 years Seat: Sircilla| Party: BRSDefeated KK Mahender Reddy (Congress) by 29,687 votes The buzz around the BRS working president and Telangana minister – which he sought to scotch – was that the CM’s seat could pass to him if his father KCR were to seek a larger role nationally.A Revanth Reddy | 56 Kamareddy, Kodangal | CongressLost to KVR Reddy (BJP) by 11,736 votesGoing into these polls with top billing as the key contender for the CM’s post, the Telangana Congress chief had the task of seeing off KCR in one of the two seats he contested.Defeated P Narender Reddy (BRS) by 32,532 votes.Bhatti Vikramarka | 63 Madhira | CongressDefeated Kamal Raju Lingala (BRS) by 35,452 votesThe Congress Legislative Party leader rode into the poll battle on the back of three straight wins here. A prominent Dalit leader, he led padayatras to push the party’s cause.Mohd Azharuddin | 60 Jublee Hills | CongressLost to Maganti Gopinath (BRS) by 16,337 votesThis was the former India cricket captain’s maiden outing on the political turf of the city he calls home. Previously, he was a Congress Lok Sahba MP for Moradabad in Uttar Pradesh.Bandi Sanjay Kumar | 52 Karimnagar| BJPLost to Gangula Kamalakar (BRS) by 3,163 votesA former BJP state chief, Sanjay had lost here in 2018. He’d held two Praja Sangrama padayatras in the last two years to help BJP up its presence in some pockets of Telangana.Akbaruddin Owaisi | 53 Chandrayangutta | AIMIMDefeated M Seetharam Reddy (BRS) by 81,660 votesThe younger brother of AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi, Akbaruddin took guard on his home turf in the Old City area of Hyderabad, which is politically synonymous with his family.