Hyderabad, Nov. 26 -- Congress leader V Naveen Yadav took oath as the Jubilee Hills MLA in the Telangana Assembly on Wednesday, November 26. Yadav took the oath in the presence of Telangana Assembly speaker Gadam Prasad.

Yadav contested the Jubilee Hills by-election on a Congress ticket and secured 98,988 votes. He defeated Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) candidate Maganti Sunitha by 24,729 votes.

The Jubilee Hills by-poll was necessitated after the death of BRS MLA Maganti Gopinath in June 2025.

While Congress and BRS fielded Naveen Yada and Sunitha respectively, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) feilded Lankala Deepak Reddy as its candidate for the Jubilee Hills by election. The All India Majlis-e-Ittehad-ul-Muslimeen (AIMIM) had announc...