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.