TRS's winning streak continues

The ruling clinched all three Rajya Sabha seats for which polling was held on Friday. The party candidates B Prakash, J Santosh Kumar and AB Lingaiah Yadav were elected to the Upper House. The Congress candidate and former union minister P Balram Naik was defeated.

Out of 117 legislators, a total of 108 members of the assembly voted. Prakash secured 33 votes while Santosh Kumar and Yadav polled 32 votes each. The Congress candidate got only 10 votes.

The TRS has 91 MLAs while the Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM), which has seven members, also supported the ruling party.

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) (five members), Telugu Desam Party (TDP) (two) and Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM) (one) abstained from voting.

Two Congress MLAs Komatireddy Venkat Reddy and SA Sampath Kumar could not vote as they were expelled from the House last week for allegedly hurling headphones during the Governor’s address.