Congress  won 64 assembly seats in Telangana and ended the nearly 10-year-old rule of the K Chandrasekhar Rao-led Bharat RashtraSamiti (BRS) government.

Congress state unit chief Revanth Reddy and Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar met the governor in the evening to stake claim to form the government in the state.

The BRS, which has 101 members in the outgoing Assembly, got 39 seats, while the BJP secured eight seats. The AIMIM won seven seats and CPI one.

In the outgoing Telangana assembly, which has a total strength of 119, the BRS has 101 members, while AsaduddinOwaisi-led AIMIM has 7, Congress 5, and BJP 3.