In Hyderabad, the Congress party has chosen Naveen Yadav to run for the vacant Jubilee Hills Assembly seat, which will be contested in November. The party announced the decision on Wednesday, with the All‑India Congress Committee president Mallikarjun Kharge giving the green light.
The Election Commission will issue a formal notice on 13 October, and candidates must file their nominations by 21 October. Nomination scrutiny takes place on 22 October, and candidates can withdraw until 24 October. Votes will be counted on 14 November, and the election process will finish by 16 November 2025.
The seat became open after former MLA Maganti Gopinath of the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) passed away in June. Maganti Gopinath had won the 2023 election by an 80,549‑vote margin, beating former cricketer Mohammed Azharuddin of the Congress by 16,337 votes. BJP’s L. Deepak Reddy finished third with 25,866 votes, and the All‑India Majlis‑e‑Ittehadul Muslimeen candidate got 7,848 votes.
BRS has announced Gopinath’s wife, Maganti Sunitha, to contest the seat. BJP has yet to select a candidate.
The Jubilee Hills constituency now counts 399,000 voters, up 3.49 percent from 2023. Polling will take place across 407 booths in 139 locations. The by‑election in Hyderabad could shape the city’s political landscape and tells us how the Congress plans to challenge the BRS stronghold.
Source: ianslive
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