Jubilee Hills byelection outcomes icing on the cake for CM Revanth and crew

Congress get together continues its victory march in Telangana politics with its candidate, V. Naveen Yadav, a backward class chief on the verge of successful within the byelection to the Jubilee Hills Assembly constituency on Friday (November 14, 2025).

After wresting the Secunderabad Cantonment seat in June 2024, Congress get together wrested the Jubilee Hills seat too from the Bharat Rashtra Samiti (BRS). The Secunderabad Cantonment byelection was necessitated by the demise of incumbent member Lasya Nanditha in a tragic street accident. Congress nominee Narayanan Sri Ganesh had received the Cantonment seat by a margin of over 13,200 votes in 2024.

The Jubilee Hills byelection was necessitated after the passing away of BRS MLA Maganti Gopinath in June this 12 months. Congress pitched for Naveen Yadav, whereas the principle opposition BRS selected to subject late Gopinath’s spouse Maganti Sunitha, whereas the BJP selected Lankala Deepak Reddy as its nominee.

In a keenly contested triangular combat between the Congress, BRS and the BJP, the ruling get together’s technique and intensive give attention to reaching out to the nook and nook of the constituency seems to have ensured its easy crusing by way of the polls. Led by the Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy and crew comprising Deputy Chief Minister Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka and a dozen Ministers, the Congress cadres didn’t give any scope to the Opposition events by way of campaigning.

Development agenda

Harping on the event agenda and the ten 12 months misrule of the BRS regime, the Congress hit the bulls eye projecting the BRS and the BJP as an enemy to improvement of the State. BRS working president Okay.T.Rama Rao and the Union Minister G. Kishan Reddy bore the brunt of the scathing assault by the Chief Minister and his cupboard colleagues. The marketing campaign touched a brand new low with all events indulging in private assaults and beneath the belt remarks.

Top Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC) functionaries mentioned that in elections, rural voters typically desire to vote for a celebration that woos them with welfare centric schemes whereas in city areas, improvement plank is given a pleasure of place. “In case of Jubilee Hills, the Congress get together has gone on report that improvement and enhancing town infrastructure was on the highest of its agenda,” a senior chief mentioned including that this has helped the ruling get together in consolidating the votes.

Another chief mentioned the Congress get together’s tactical determination to subject a BC and a youth chief as its candidate solely cemented its dedication of taking ahead the choice of 42% quota for the BC’s in native our bodies. The BRS and the BJP selected to offer tickets to ahead caste candidates, which helped the ruling Congress and its candidate Naveen Yadav — who’s a neighborhood.

Crucial minority votes

Eyeing the influential minority votes, the Congress Government in a shock transfer inducted former MP Md. Azharuddin into the State Cabinet within the midst of the electioneering, there by sending a optimistic sign among the many Muslim voters, who quantity over a lakh within the constituency. The AIMIM overtly supporting the Congress candidate solely added to the shift of Muslim votes to the Congress get together, which hitherto within the final two elections had stayed with the BRS.

The unity among the many Congress leaders — significantly the Chief Minister, Deputy Chief Minister and scores of Ministers — aided by the TPCC chief B. Mahesh Kumar Goud and AICC in-charge Meenakshi Natarajan and their in depth marketing campaign improved the prospects of the ruling get together nominee. A form of sympathy for Mr. Naveen Yadav, who misplaced twice from the identical constituency, additionally helped him garner votes.

BRS graph falls additional

For the BRS, its downslide continues since shedding energy in 2023 and drawing a clean within the Lok Sabha elections in 2024. It additionally conceded floor to the Congress within the Secunderabad Cantonment Assembly byelection and now it’s on the verge of shedding Jubilee Hills seat additionally.

Sources maintained that the absence of former Chief Minister and BRS supremo Okay. Chandrashekar Rao, who stayed away from marketing campaign, was seen. The whole burden of main the marketing campaign fell on KTR and he needed to lead the get together from the entrance. The bereavement within the household of former Minister T. Harish Rao additionally got here as a setback as Mr. Harish Rao couldn’t actively take part. It was identified that senior get together leaders additionally didn’t wholeheartedly marketing campaign within the election for the get together candidate.

Poor present by BJP

For the BJP, the Jubilee Hills byelection result’s a nightmare because the get together candidate, Mr. Deepak Reddy, lagged a distant third proper from the primary spherical of counting. The get together misplaced deposit. It is believed that the BJP management didn’t wholeheartedly marketing campaign within the election. The bulk of the marketing campaign fell on the get together president N. Ramchander Rao and the occasional marketing campaign by the Union Minister G. Kishan Reddy didn’t reduce ice with the citizens. The Hindutva agenda put forth by one other Union Minister Bandi Sanjay Kumar to polarise the voters didn’t affect the end result.

The Congress get together can’t afford a laid again angle after its spectacular victory in Jubilee Hills byelection, because it has to go a great distance in repeating its successful methods within the native our bodies polls additionally.