Hyderabad, Oct. 27 -- A total of 58 candidates are contesting in the November 11 Jubilee Hills Assembly By-Election, with the inclusion of NOTA, bringing the total number of contesting options to 59.

Besides the three main political parties -- V Naveen Yadav of the ruling Congress, Maganti Gopinath's widow Magani Sunitha of BRS and Lankala Deepak Reddy of the BJP, 26 candidates belong to registered political parties, while 29 candidates are contesting as independents.

In accordance with the Election Commission of India (ECI) guidelines, officials have allotted election symbols to all the candidates, an official release said here on Monday..

The constituency has 4,01,365 registered voters, and to facilitate smooth polling, a total of 407 ...