India, Nov. 14 -- The Congress on Friday registered a landslide victory in the Jubilee Hills assembly bye-elections in Hyderabad by wresting the seat from the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) with a massive margin of 24,729 votes.

After the completion of 10 rounds of counting of votes, the Election Commission of India declared that Congress candidate Vallala Naveen Yadav polled 98,988 votes against 74,259 votes polled by his nearest rival Maganti Sunitha of BRS.

Sunitha is the widow of BRS MLA Maganti Gopinath, whose death in June this year necessitated the bypoll.

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate Lankala Deepak Reddy, who polled only 17,061 votes, lost his deposit. In all, 58 candidates were in the fray in the by-election.

The Jubi...