However, the BJP was yet to announce its candidate while the Congress and the BRS candidates, Naveen Yadav and Maganti Sunitha, have already started campaigning in the constituency.
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Telangana BJP President N Ramchander Rao on Friday said that the party was aiming to win the Jubilee Hills bypoll as a gift to Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
However, the BJP was yet to announce its candidate while the Congress and the BRS candidates, Naveen Yadav and Maganti Sunitha, have already started campaigning in the constituency.
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The constituency has a substantial minority vote, making it difficult for the saffron party to upset either Congress or the BRS’s applecart. However, the Congress party is also grappling with dissidence over Yadav’s candidature.
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State Transport Minister Ponnam Prabhakar, who is in charge of Hyderabad, AICC in-charge Meenakshi Natarajan, and Labour Minister G Vivek Venkataswamy flocked to the residence of former Congress MP Anjan Yadav.
The former Secunderabad MP was upset after his candidature for the Jubilee Hills constituency was overlooked. Video footage of his annoyance over the ‘outsider’ tag went viral, where he was seen taking a dig at other leaders, including Ponnam Prabhakar.
Anjan Yadav’s son, Anil, was sent to the Rajya Sabha last year and is considered close to Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy. The Congress candidate from the Jubilee Hills constituency had contested in 2014 polls with an AIMIM ticket and in 2018 as an independent before joining Congress in 2023. He met CM Reddy on Friday. The chief minister backed his candidature and even offered MLC post to Mohammad Azharuddin, who was keen on contesting once again.
Meanwhile, addressing a meeting of leaders from the Greater Hyderabad area, BJP state president N Ramchander Rao directed BJP workers to begin door-to-door campaigning, assuring that the candidate’s name would be announced within two to three days.
He also urged the party workers to expose the covert understanding between the BRS and the BJP, accusing both the parties of neglecting Hyderabad.
Rao slammed the Congress government after the state Wakf Board allotted a piece of land for a graveyard, a long-standing demand of the minority community in the area, just before the Model Code of Conduct (MCC). But within hours, defence authorities claimed the land.
Meanwhile, residents of the gated communities at Erragadda also started protesting against a graveyard close to their homes.
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