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Jubilee Hills Bypoll Intensifies as Surveys Favor BRS and Rivals Escalate Campaign Attacks

New polling points to a BRS advantage, with the contest shaped by corruption claims and neighborhood grievances.

Overview

  • A Chanakya Strategies pre-poll survey projects BRS candidate Maganti Sunitha ahead with 43% of the vote, against 38% for Congress and 10% for the BJP.
  • Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy said BRS has no moral right to seek sympathy votes and demanded a CBI FIR in the Kaleshwaram case by November 11, challenging arrests of K. Chandrashekar Rao and T. Harish Rao and pressing action in the Formula E case.
  • BJP state president N. Ramchandra Rao condemned permission for a private cemetery in Erragadda and blamed officials for neglected drainage, damaged roads, open manholes and poor street lighting.
  • The Jana Sena Party’s Telangana unit announced support for the BJP’s L. Deepak Reddy and said it will join the bypoll campaign.
  • BRS working president K. T. Rama Rao cast the race as a fight against the Congress government’s HYDRAA demolitions and urged voters to back Maganti Sunitha.