Hyderabad: Congress, on Friday, November 14, registered a thumping win at the Jubilee Hills by election, defeating the Bharat Rashtra Samithi ( BRS ) by nearly 25,000 votes. The bypoll was crucial for both parties, with the latter seeking a political revival after its defeat in the 2023 Assembly elections. Friday’s result shows BRS will have to wait for now.

Congress candidate V Naveen Yadav secured 98,988 votes, while BRS’s Maganti Sunitha got 74,259 votes, a very large margin indeed. Many exit polls had predicted a tight contest between them, but the result surprisingly turned into a one-sided verdict.

This victory marks Congress’s second MLA in the Greater Hyderabad region after Secunderabad Cantonment.

Scenes of jubilation broke out at the Congress office as party workers lit fi

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