Mahabubnagar, March 28 -- Polling for Telangana Legislative Council from Mahabubnagar Local Authorities' constituency was held on Thursday.

The bypoll comes ahead of the Lok Sabha polls which will be held in Telangana on May 13.

Manne Jeevan Reddy of the Congress who has been pitted against N Naveen Kumar Reddy of BRS has expressed confidence in his party's win.

"Mahbubnagar local body MLC election polling has been ongoing today. More or less 40 to 50 per cent polling has been done. Personally, I have inspected three polling stations. It has been very enthusiastic for the voters to vote for Congress because of the recent change in the government," Reddy said at noon today.

He further said that there have been a lot of joinings in the ...