Out of 150 seats in the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC), TRS won in 56 wards, AIMIM won in 44 wards, BJP won in 48 wards while Congress won in 2 wards. Counting of votes began at 8 AM with postal ballots being counted first and BJP was ahead of its rivals in the postal ballot votes in about 80 wards. In an exclusive interview with India Today, AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi said: "They called me Jinnah... it is the BJP which indulged in communal rhetoric." For more, watch the full video.