Hyderabad: Congress candidate V Naveen Yadav on Friday won the Jubilee Hills by election, defeating his nearest BRS rival Maganti Sunitha by a margin of over 24,000 votes.

Yadav secured 98,988 votes, while the BRS nominee got 74,259 votes.

BJP candidate Lankala Deepak Reddy, who managed to get only 17,061 votes, forfeited his security deposit.

The bypoll was necessitated by the death of BRS MLA Maganti Gopinath in June this year. As many as 58 candidates were in the fray in the by-election caused by the death of sitting MLA Maganti Gopinath of Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS).

This time, the AIMIM, led by Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi, supported the Congress candidate.

The exit polls by several leading agencies predicted a Congress win.

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