Hyderabad: K Chandrasekhar Rao-led government in Telangana received a jolt with the opposition BJP-TDP alliance bagging one of the two seats of the legislative council that went to polls last week. BJP's Ramachandra Rao won the election from Hyderabad-Ranga Reddy-Mahabubnagar graduates' constituency, defeating his nearest rival Devi Prasad of the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) by 13,318 votes. Rao polled 53,881 votes while Prasad secured 40,563 votes. The main opposition Congress got only 2,856 votes. According to the Election Commission, of the 296,318 electors, about 39 per cent exercised their franchise in Hyderabad-Ranga Reddy-Mahabubnagar graduates' constituency.
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