Congress fields Naveen Yadav for Jubilee Hills bypoll
The bypoll was necessitated due to the death of MLA Maganti Gopinath in June.
Hyderabad: Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge has approved of Naveen Yadav as the party’s official candidate for Jubilee Hills bypoll.
Naveen Yadav contested in Jubilee Hills Assembly election from AIMIM in 2014 and as an independent candidate in 2018. He joined Congress in 2023.
Yadav, who is from the Backward Class (BC) community, was one of the three shortlisted candidates and it was almost a foregone conclusion that a candidate from BC community would be given the ticket.
Voter card distribution row:
Earlier this week, Naveen Yadav was booked by Madhura nagar police for distributing fake voter id cards in Yousufguda area of the constituency.
A complaint was filed by Jubilee Hills Electoral Registration Officer Rajinikantha Reddy and a case was registered under several sections of the BNSS for violating election rules.
The election is set to take place on November 11 and the counting will be done on November 14.
The bypoll was necessitated due to the death of former MLA Maganti Gopinath (BRS) in June.
Jubilee Hills Assembly constituency:
The neighbourhoods which make up the constituency include Erragadda, Borabanda, Yousufguda, Shaikpet, Rahamath nagar and Vengalrao Nagar.
The constituency has 3,98,982 voters, of which male electors are 2,07,367 and female electors are 1,91,590 and 25 of another gender. The BRS will field Maganti Sunitha, the wife of late MLA Maganti Gopinath.