Hyderabad: The Jubilee Hills by-election has witnessed an unexpected surge of candidates filing nominations. Within the first six days, 94 nominations were submitted.

On the final day, Tuesday, as many as 189 candidates arrived at the Returning Officer’s office located in the Shaikpet Tahsildar’s premises in Banjara Hills to submit their nomination papers.

Due to the overwhelming turnout and the limited time until 3 pm, the Returning Officer issued tokens to enable candidates to file their papers in sequence. By around 9:30 pm, only 90 nominations had been processed.

With more awaiting clearance past midnight, officials sought special permission from the Election Commission to continue the nomination process after hours. If all papers are accepted, the total number of nominations wil

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