Congress’ Vallala Naveen Yadav Wins Jubilee Hills Bypoll by 30,000+ Votes

Vallala Naveen Yadav, the Congress candidate, secured a decisive victory in the Jubilee Hills Assembly by-election on November 14, defeating Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) nominee Maganti Sunitha by a substantial margin exceeding 30,000 votes, a result that underscores a notable shift in voter preference within the urban constituency and highlights the Congress party’s growing dominance in Telangana’s political landscape following successive electoral challenges for the victor.

The bypoll was necessitated by the untimely demise of the sitting BRS MLA Maganti Gopinath earlier this year, leading the opposition party to nominate his wife, Sunitha, who sought to leverage public sympathy in her campaign; polling occurred on November 11, with counting concluding on November 14, during which Naveen Yadav established and sustained a commanding lead across all rounds, while Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate Lankala Deepak Reddy polled below the required threshold, forfeiting his deposit and departing the counting center prior to the final declaration.

Naveen Yadav’s political trajectory spans over 15 years of persistent effort, commencing with an unsuccessful contest for corporator in the Yousufguda division under the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) ticket in 2009, followed by defeats in the 2014 Assembly election from Jubilee Hills on the same party’s symbol, a subsequent loss in the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation elections from Rahmathnagar division, and a 2018 Independent bid from the identical Assembly segment; his strategic switch to the Congress in 2023 aligned him with the ruling dispensation and culminated in this landmark win.

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Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee president Mahesh Kumar Goud interpreted the victory as conclusive proof of the BRS’s eroding relevance across the state, declaring that the party now occupies no viable space in Telangana’s political future, while expressing firm confidence that the Congress would secure governance for another eight years and capture at least 100 seats in the next Assembly elections, attributing the mandate to Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy’s focused implementation of welfare programs and infrastructure development over the past two years.

BRS working president KT Rama Rao downplayed the defeat, asserting that it carried no broader setback for the party and reaffirming commitment to raising public concerns in the Assembly and beyond; in contrast, Congress ministers, MLAs, and senior leaders celebrated the outcome as an unequivocal voter endorsement of the state government’s policies, with the Election Commission of India yet to issue the official notification formalizing Naveen Yadav’s election as the new representative of Jubilee Hills.

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