Overview

• After expressing anger over being overlooked, former MP Anjan Kumar Yadav was visited by AICC in-charge Meenakshi Natarajan and state ministers Ponnam Prabhakar and G. Vivek, who said he will lead the Jubilee Hills campaign.
• Naveen Yadav, a recent Congress entrant who earlier contested the seat for AIMIM in 2014 and as an independent in 2018, is the party’s official bypoll nominee for November 11.
• Local outlets reported he could still consider filing as an independent, though those reports remain unconfirmed and party leaders projected a united front.
• The BJP said it aims to take the seat as a gift to Prime Minister Narendra Modi but has yet to name its candidate, while the BRS has fielded Maganti Sunitha and both Congress and BRS have begun canvassing.
• Congress has appointed three ministers as bypoll in-charges and is pursuing micro-targeted outreach in a constituency with large Backward Classes and Muslim electorates, as the burial ground land row drew fresh criticism and neighborhood protests.