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Currently the Telangana Rashtra Samithi has 63 seats in the 117-member Assembly, the Congress has 22 and the BJP has nine. A parliamentarian from Chevalla in the Ranga Reddy district, Vishweswar Reddy belongs to the politically influential Reddy community and this shift could influence the vote in at least a few constituencies, according to NDTV. Read More | Telangana Polls: Youth power may give a push to Cong-led MahakootamiAn engineer-turned-politician, Reddy joined the Telangana Rashtra Samithi in 2013. His grandfather Konda Venkata Ranga Reddy was a freedom fighter who became the Deputy Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh. The Ranga Reddy district is said to have been named after him..