The result of the Jubilee Hills by-election will boost the confidence of the winning party to go full steam ahead in the upcoming, much-delayed polls to the local self-government bodies in Telangana. A confident Congress has already termed the bypoll a referendum on the A Revanth Reddy-led government. Adding to the Congress’s confidence are exit poll results that predicted a narrow win for the more than a century-old party.

A Congress win will mean the BRS losing a member in the 119-member Telangana Legislative Assembly. The by-election was necessitated by the demise of BRS MLA Maganti Gopinath on 8 June 2025.

The BRS fielded Gopinath’s wife, Mangati Sunitha, hoping to capitalise on the voters’ sympathy. The BJP, meanwhile, assigned Lankala Deepak Reddy, who made the contest an interesti

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