Hyderabad, Nov. 15 -- The Congress party's victory in the Jubilee Hills byelection, is "an alert before an earthquake" for the Opposition, Telangana Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy warned on Friday.
In byelection results declared for the Jubilee Hills, the stronghold of BRS for nearly a decade, Congress candidate N Naveen Yadav defeated his nearest BRS rival Maganti Sunitha by a margin of 24,711 votes. BJP candidate Lankala Deepak Reddy lost the deposit.
The Jubilee Hills seat fell vacant after the sudden demise of sitting MLA Maganti Gopinath on June 8 this year. The BRS' candidate is the widow of Maganti Gopinath. Gopinath had represented the constituency for three consecutive terms-2014, 2018 and 2023-cementing the BRS' hold in this urb...