Congress on the ropes in Jubilee Hills as BRS edges ahead

With days to go for polling, the Congress faces growing dissent and dwindling support in the Jubilee Hills bypoll. Chief Minister Revanth Reddy’s campaign suffered a major embarrassment after poor turnout and a survey showed the BRS candidate leading comfortably

Hyderabad: The Congress party, barely two years into power in Telangana, finds itself struggling to salvage its image in the high-stakes Jubilee Hills by-election. It is fighting what insiders call a battle with its back firmly against the wall.

Even as Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy leads the Congress campaign, the poor turnout at Tuesday’s meeting of film workers exposed him and his clout, or rather, the lack of it, sufficiently. The Congress party did not find any solace even with the findings of a survey conducted by the