Hyderabad: Till 1 pm, a 31.94 per cent voter turnout was recorded in the bypoll for Jubilee Hills Assembly constituency in Hyderabad on Tuesday.

Polling began at 7 a.m. at all 407 polling stations in the constituency which covers posh Jubilee Hills and several middle-class and weaker section colonies and slums in the heart of the city.

Four lakh voters eligible for Jubilee Hills bypoll

A little over four lakh voters are eligible to exercise their franchise in the byelection, which was necessitated by the death of sitting MLA Maganti Gopinath of Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS).

A total of 58 candidates are in the fray, but the main contest is between the ruling Congress party and the opposition BRS and BJP.

The BRS has fielded Gopinath’s wife, Sunitha, while Naveen Yadav has entered the

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