Hyderabad, Feb. 14 -- The Congress won 84 of 123 urban local bodies in Telangana's municipal elections on Friday, February 13, securing 1,537 seats out of 2,996 wards contested, according to results released by the State Election Commission.

The Congress secured almost double what the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) managed, with the K Chandrasekhar Rao-led party winning 25 municipalities with 781 seats. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) came in third with six urban bodies and 335 seats, while the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) picked up one municipality.

The Congress also won five out of seven municipal corporations: Mancherial, Ramagundam, Kothagudem, Mahabubnagar and Nalgonda. The BJP took the other two, Nizamabad and Kar...