The ruling Telangana Rashtra Samithi or TRS has bagged all three seats in Rajya Sabha election 2018 in the state. B Prakash, J Santosh Kumar and AB Lingaiah Yadav were elected to the Upper House. Congress candidate and former union minister P Balram Naik was defeated. A total of 108 members of the assembly voted. Mr Prakash secured 33 votes while Santosh Kumar and Mr Yadav polled 32 votes each. The Congress candidate got only 10 votes as independent member D Prakash Reddy's vote was declared invalid by the Election Commission.