Overview
- Election Commission figures show V. Naveen Yadav polled 98,988 votes to BRS’s Maganti Sunitha’s 74,259, with counting completed over 10 rounds at the Kotla Vijaya Bhaskara Reddy Stadium.
- The Congress tally in the 119-member Telangana Assembly rises to 66 as the BJP finished a distant third with 17,061 votes and forfeited its deposit.
- Turnout was 48.49% of roughly 4.01 lakh voters in a bypoll held after the death of sitting BRS MLA Maganti Gopinath.
- AIMIM did not field a candidate and backed the Congress, while reports highlighted the choice of OBC leader Naveen Yadav and the induction of Mohammed Azharuddin as factors in consolidating minority and urban votes.
- This is the Congress’s second Telangana bypoll victory since 2023 after Secunderabad Cantonment, signaling momentum heading into GHMC and other local body elections.