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Polling is underway in the bye-election for Jubilee Hills Assembly constituency in Hyderabad on Tuesday, November 11.

The voting began at 7 am at all 407 polling stations in the constituency, which covers the posh Jubilee Hills area and several middle-class and weaker section colonies and slums in the heart of the city.

A little over four lakh voters are eligible to exercise their franchise in the bye-election, which is necessitated by the death of sitting MLA Maganti Gopinath of Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS).

A total of 58 candidates are in the fray, but the main contest is between the ruling Congress party and opposition BRS and BJP.

The BRS has fielded Gopinath’s wife Sunitha, while Naveen Yadav has entered the fray on the Co

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