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Congress enactment continues its triumph march successful Telangana authorities with its candidate, V. Naveen Yadav, a backward people person connected the verge of winning successful the byelection to the Jubilee Hills Assembly constituency connected Friday (November 14, 2025).
After wresting the Secunderabad Cantonment spot successful June 2024, Congress enactment wrested the Jubilee Hills spot excessively from the Bharat Rashtra Samiti (BRS). The Secunderabad Cantonment byelection was necessitated by the decease of incumbent subordinate Lasya Nanditha successful a tragic roadworthy accident. Congress nominee Narayanan Sri Ganesh had won the Cantonment spot by a borderline of implicit 13,200 votes successful 2024.
The Jubilee Hills byelection was necessitated aft the passing distant of BRS MLA Maganti Gopinath successful June this year. Congress pitched for Naveen Yadav, portion the main absorption BRS chose to tract precocious Gopinath’s woman Maganti Sunitha, portion the BJP chose Lankala Deepak Reddy arsenic its nominee.
In a keenly contested triangular combat betwixt the Congress, BRS and the BJP, the ruling party’s strategy and intensive absorption connected reaching retired to the nook and country of the constituency appears to person ensured its creaseless sailing done the polls. Led by the Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy and squad comprising Deputy Chief Minister Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka and a twelve Ministers, the Congress cadres did not springiness immoderate scope to the Opposition parties successful presumption of campaigning.
Development agenda
Harping connected the improvement docket and the 10 twelvemonth misrule of the BRS regime, the Congress deed the bulls oculus projecting the BRS and the BJP arsenic an force to improvement of the State. BRS moving president K.T.Rama Rao and the Union Minister G. Kishan Reddy bore the brunt of the scathing onslaught by the Chief Minister and his furniture colleagues. The run touched a caller debased with each parties indulging successful idiosyncratic attacks and beneath the loop remarks.
Top Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC) functionaries said that during elections, agrarian voters mostly similar to ballot for a enactment that woos them with payment centric schemes portion successful municipality areas, improvement plank is fixed a pridefulness of place. “In lawsuit of Jubilee Hills, the Congress enactment has gone connected grounds that improvement and improving the metropolis infrastructure was connected the apical of its agenda,” a elder person said adding that this has helped the ruling enactment successful consolidating the votes.
Another person said the Congress party’s tactical determination to tract a BC and a younker person arsenic its campaigner lone cemented its committedness of taking guardant the determination of 42% quota for the BC’s successful section bodies. The BRS and the BJP chose to springiness tickets to guardant caste candidates, which helped the ruling Congress and its campaigner Naveen Yadav — who is simply a local.
Crucial number votes
Eyeing the influential number votes, the Congress Government successful a surprise determination inducted erstwhile MP Md. Azharuddin into the State Cabinet successful the midst of the electioneering, determination by sending a affirmative awesome among the Muslim voters, who fig implicit a lakh successful the constituency. The AIMIM openly supporting the Congress campaigner lone added to the displacement of Muslim votes to the Congress party, which hitherto successful the past 2 elections had stayed with the BRS.
The unity among the Congress leaders — peculiarly the Chief Minister, Deputy Chief Minister and scores of Ministers — aided by the TPCC main B. Mahesh Kumar Goud and AICC in-charge Meenakshi Natarajan and their extended run improved the prospects of the ruling enactment nominee. A benignant of sympathy for Mr. Naveen Yadav, who mislaid doubly from the aforesaid constituency, besides helped him garner votes.
BRS graph falls further
For the BRS, its downslide continues since losing powerfulness successful 2023 and drafting a blank successful the Lok Sabha elections successful 2024. It besides conceded crushed to the Congress successful the Secunderabad Cantonment Assembly byelection and present it is connected the verge of losing Jubilee Hills spot also.
Sources maintained that the lack of erstwhile Chief Minister and BRS supremo K. Chandrashekar Rao, who stayed distant from campaign, was visible. The full load of starring the run fell connected KTR and helium had to pb the enactment from the front. The bereavement successful the household of erstwhile Minister T. Harish Rao besides came arsenic a setback arsenic Mr. Harish Rao could not actively participate. It was pointed retired that elder enactment leaders besides did not wholeheartedly run successful the predetermination for the enactment candidate.
Poor amusement by BJP
For the BJP, the Jubilee Hills byelection effect is simply a nightmare arsenic the enactment candidate, Mr. Deepak Reddy, lagged a distant 3rd close from the archetypal circular of counting. The enactment mislaid deposit. It is believed that the BJP enactment did not wholeheartedly run successful the election. The bulk of the run fell connected the enactment president N. Ramchander Rao and the occasional run by the Union Minister G. Kishan Reddy did not chopped crystal with the electorate. The Hindutva docket enactment distant by different Union Minister Bandi Sanjay Kumar to polarise the voters did not interaction the outcome.
The Congress enactment tin not spend a laid backmost cognition aft its awesome triumph successful Jubilee Hills byelection, arsenic it has to spell a agelong mode successful repeating its winning ways successful the section bodies polls also.
