Hyderabad, Nov. 11 -- Voting for the Jubilee Hills Assembly by-election began on Tuesday morning under tight security arrangements.
Polling started at 0700 hours and will continue until 1800 hours. Voters turned up early at several booths, forming queues across the 407 polling stations set up at 139 locations in the constituency.
A total of 4,01,365 voters - including 2,08,561 men, 1,92,779 women and 25 voters registered under the 'others' category - are eligible to exercise their franchise.
The by-election was necessitated following the death of BRS MLA Maganti Gopinath in June this year. The key contenders in the fray are Maganti Sunitha of the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS), Lankala Deepak Reddy of the BJP and Naveen Yadav of the Congre...