Hyderabad: Forum For Good Governance (FFGG) general secretary Padmanabh Reddy on Friday, December 5, wrote to the Telangana Chief Electoral Officer seeking an audit of the expenditure incurred for the Jubilee Hills by-election held last month.

Claiming that Rs 591.60 lakhs was spent by the election authorities for the by election, the FFGG member stated that the amount is “abnormally high”. The Jubilee Hills by election result was announced on November 14. The ruling Congress won the seat after a high stakes election, beating the main opposition Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS).

It was necessitated after the late BRS MLA Maganti Gopinath passed away earlier this year. Locan strongman Naveen Yadav beat BRS candidate and Gopinath’s wife Sunitha to win the Jubilee Hills by election.

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