Hyderabad: The ruling Congress and BJP won eight seats each and the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) one in the parliament elections from Telangana.The Congress won in Nalgonda, Bhongir, Khammam, Peddapalli, Zaheerabad, Nagarkurnool (SC reserved), Mahbubabad ( ST) and Warangal (SC).The BJP was victorious in Mahbubnagar, Adilabad (ST), Karimnagar, Malkajgiri, Secunderabad, Nizamabad, Chevella and Medak.The AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi registered his fifth victory from Hyderabad. The Bharat Rashtra Samiti (BRS), which won 39 seats in Assembly elections six months ago, drew a blank. The party was second in only two constituencies while slipping to third place in 14 constituencies and a poor fourth in Hyderabad .This is the first time in 20 years that the BRS will not be represented in Lok Sabha. The party president and former chief minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao had recently almost given up hope of the party doing well as he asked its leaders not to be elated with outstanding results nor depressed with poor performance.The results were close to chief minister and State Congress president A. Revanth Reddy’s expectation of the party winning a minimum of nine seats and a maximum of eleven. At the same time, it was also not a loss of face for BJP leadership as it expressed confidence in touching the double-digit market.The BRS had nine members, BJP four, Congress three and AIMIM one in the present term of Lok Sabha.Reacting to the results, BRS working president K.T. Rama Rao tweeted, “Today’s electoral setback is certainly very, disappointing. But, we will continue to toil and will rise from the ashes again like a Phoenix”.He recalled that the BRS had seen several achievements, successes and setbacks in 24 years since its inception. The formation of Telangana State was its biggest achievement. As a regional party, it won two Assembly elections with 63 and 88 MLAs.Another BRS leader Ponnala Laxmaiah said people were swayed by make-believe statements of BJP and Congress.The State Congress working president B. Mahesh Kumar Goud said the results showed that the people continued to repose faith in the party. He added that the BJP and BRS colluded to defeat the Congress, stating that the BRS fielded weak candidates to aid the victory of the BJP.The BJP candidate Malkajgiri Eatala Rajender attributed the party’s victory to the credibility of the Modi-led Union government.The Congress candidate of Nalgonda K. Raghuveer Reddy won by an unassailable margin of 5.75 lakh votes. Asaduddin Owaisi won by 3.15 lakh votes though he met with stiff resistance from K. Madhavi Lata of the BJP. Union minister G. Kishan Reddy and BJP national general secretary D.K. Aruna were among other winners of the BJP. Aruna won by a slender margin of 5,000 votes.Others on the victory path were Kadiam Kavya and Suresh Shetkari of Congress from Warangal and Zaheerabad respectively and Bandi Sanjay Kumar of BJP from Karimnagar.The Congress won the by-election to the Assembly from the Secunderabad Cantonment constituency.The results reflected the emergence of the BJP as a force to take on Congress in the next Assembly elections. The BJP has virtually occupied the space of BRS. The enthusiasm in public at the victory of Congress in Assembly elections six months ago had receded.The promise of Congress to fulfil its six guarantees within a hundred days of coming to power was found to be an eyewash. Only one guarantee i.e. free bus ride to women was fully implemented.