Hyderabad: Congress candidate V Naveen Yadav on Friday won the Jubilee Hills by election, defeating his nearest BRS rival Maganti Sunitha by a margin of over 24,000 votes.
Yadav secured 98,988 votes, while the BRS nominee got 74,259 votes.
BJP candidate Lankala Deepak Reddy, who managed to get only 17,061 votes, forfeited his security deposit.
The bypoll was necessitated by the death of BRS MLA Maganti Gopinath in June this year. As many as 58 candidates were in the fray in the by-election caused by the death of sitting MLA Maganti Gopinath of Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS).
This time, the AIMIM, led by Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi, supported the Congress candidate.
The exit polls by several leading agencies predicted a Congress win.
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| Party | Votes (After tenth round) |
| Congress | 98988 |
| BRS | 74259 |
| BJP | 17061 |
Jubilant Congress workers have begun celebrating at Gandhi Bhavan and Yousufguda party office.
Jubilee Hills voters satisfied with Revanth’s govt
Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC) president B Mahesh Kumar Goud said the imminent victory is an endorsement of the Revanth Reddy government’s performance.
Speaking to reporters at Nizamabad, he said the voters have rejected the K Chandrasekhar Rao-led BRS. “When BRS won zero seats in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, it was clear that it did not have any future in the state. BRS has failed to retain its seat now. The verdict of the people of Jubilee Hills is that BRS has no place in the state,” Goud said.
The success of Congress in the bypolls to Secunderabad Cantonment seat last year and Jubilee Hills now shows that the people are satisfied with CM Reddy’s leadership and the government’s welfare programmes, he said.
By poll saw 48.49 per cent voter turnout
According to the Chief Electoral Officer, C. Sudharshan Reddy, 48.49 per cent of the electorate cast their votes in the by-election.
A total of 1,94,631 votes were polled. Officials said 99,771 men, 94,855 women and five others cast their votes. The number of postal ballots is 101.
The constituency has a total of 4,01,365 voters comprising 2,08,561 males, 1,92,779 females and 25 others.
A total of 103 absentee voters (above 85 years and Persons with Disabilities) exercised their option for a postal ballot, and out of them, 101 have utilised the postal ballot voting.
