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Aditanath’s winning percentage was slightly better at 39.13 percent as compared to Modi’s 28.75 percent
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Despite intense campaigning by national and local level leaders, the alliance lost, winning just 21 out of the 119 assembly seats
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With six women elected to the state assembly this time, only five percent of elected legislators are women
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KTR had worked in the US for six years from 2001 before entering the political arena during the separate Telangana agitation spearheaded by the TRS.
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KCR, as Rao is popularly called, steered his party TRS to a thumping victory and took over the reins of India's newest state for a second straight term.
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Earlier in the day, Rahul Gandhi held talks with the party's central observers in the states, who gave him inputs on the views of the newly-elected legislators in the three states.
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Data revealed by Twitter shows that four lakh tweets were posted on the counting day alone.
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The results assume significance as they come less than four months before the general elections get underway
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KCR, as Rao is popularly known, was administered the oath of office and secrecy by Governor E S L Narasimhan at a simple ceremony on the lawns of Raj Bhavan here.
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Live updates of the 2018 Telangana Assembly election results. KCR has been sworn in as the Chief Minister for the second consecutive time shortly
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It said along with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP chief Amit Shah, throats of even their party workers had turned hoarse while calling for a "Congress-free" country and condolences were being offered everyday to the nation's oldest party.
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Gandhi met the party's observers -- K C Venugopal for Rajasthan and A K Antony for Madhya Pradesh early morning along with the state unit in-charges and later met the contenders.
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Despite the anti-incumbency, the BJP's vote share in Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan was almost equal to the Congress, which emerged victorious, he said.
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Noting that there was an elaborate process, including multiple level scrutiny, in the preparation of the voters' list, he said it was not correct to say that names of a large number of voters were missing.
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Senior Congress leader M Veerappa Moily, who was part of the central party unit tasked with the poll strategy, blamed poor organisation at the state level for it.
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The TRS president sarcastically had said he would offer "return gift" to Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu by entering AP politics.
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A good number of jokes are also targetted at Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, who had campaigned extensively for the BJP during the elections.
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The newly-elected MLAs met at Telangana Bhavan, the TRS headquarters here, and took the decision unanimously, the party sources said.
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The saffron party and its allies have been on a roll since the Narendra Modi-led NDA came to power in May 2014. As a result, the political map of India was splashed with saffron
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A day after the Congress ousted the BJP from power in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh, senior SP leader Ram Gopal Yadav also said that had the Congress coordinated in a better manner with his party, the poll results could have been different for both the parties.
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Belying predictions of exit polls, the Congress won convincingly in Chattisgarh, less so in Rajasthan, and scraped through with a wafer-thin lead in Madhya Pradesh, final results showed after the vote count on Tuesday.
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The three-time CM, who tendered his resignation to Governor Anandiben Patel earlier in the day, said the BJP will not stake claim to form government in the state.
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It will be the second consecutive term of KCR as the Chief Minister of the state.
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The Sena, an ally of the BJP at the Centre and in Maharashtra, said people have brought "those flying in the air back to the ground".
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Gandhi's reaction came after the Congress ousted BJP governments in Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh.
