Overview
- BRS filed a complaint with the Election Commission seeking Congress candidate V. Naveen Yadav’s disqualification over an alleged ₹72 lakh spend at a film workers’ event, calling it a code violation.
- TPCC chief Mahesh Kumar Goud urged the EC to act against K. T. Rama Rao after he told voters to take money from Congress and vote for BRS, calling the appeal undemocratic.
- Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy warned that schemes such as fine rice, 200 free power units, free bus travel for women and ration cards could be scrapped if BRS wins the bypoll, while pitching development as the priority.
- K. T. Rama Rao led roadshows and outreach, casting a BRS win as the launchpad for a statewide resurgence and accusing Congress of broken promises and demolitions.
- Voting is on November 11 for BRS’s Maganti Sunitha, Congress’s V. Naveen Yadav and BJP’s Lankala Deepak Reddy, with 4,01,365 electors; AIMIM is openly backing Congress, and Union Minister G. Kishan Reddy campaigned for the BJP with promises of central-backed development.