Overview
- Congress candidate V. Naveen Yadav secured 98,988 votes to BRS nominee Maganti Sunitha’s 74,259, with BJP’s Lankala Deepak Reddy third at 17,061 and losing his deposit.
- Election Commission figures show Yadav led from the first round and sustained the advantage through all 10 rounds of counting at the Kotla Vijayabhaskar Reddy Stadium.
- The result raises Congress’s strength in the 119-member Telangana Assembly to 66 following a low-turnout poll of 48.49% among roughly 4.01 lakh voters.
- The bypoll featured 58 candidates and followed the June death of sitting BRS MLA Maganti Gopinath, for whom the party fielded his wife, Sunitha.
- Analysts and party leaders highlight AIMIM’s decision not to contest, targeted outreach including Mohammed Azharuddin’s cabinet induction, and urban voter shifts as factors with implications for upcoming GHMC and local body elections.