Congress continues successful streak in Telangana, Jubilee Hills byelection consequence icing on the cake for CM Revanth and group

Congress celebration 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 Meeting constituency on Friday (November 14, 2025).

After wresting the Secunderabad Cantonment seat in June 2024, Congress celebration 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 gained 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 yr. Congress pitched for Naveen Yadav, whereas the primary opposition BRS selected to area late Gopinath’s spouse Maganti Sunitha, whereas the BJP selected Lankala Deepak Reddy as its nominee.

In a keenly contested triangular struggle between the Congress, BRS and the BJP, the ruling celebration’s technique and intensive deal with reaching out to the nook and nook of the constituency seems to have ensured its easy crusing by the polls. Led by the Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy and group 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.

growth agenda

Harping on the event agenda and the ten yr misrule of the BRS regime, the Congress hit the bulls eye projecting the BRS and the BJP as an enemy to growth of the State. BRS working president KTRama 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.

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

One other chief stated the Congress celebration’s tactical choice to area 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 provide tickets to ahead caste candidates, which helped the ruling Congress and its candidate Naveen Yadav — who’s a neighborhood.

Essential minority votes

Eyeing the influential minority votes, the Congress Authorities in asshock transfer inducted former MP Md. Azharuddin into the State Cupboard 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 brazenly supporting the Congress candidate solely added to the shift of Muslim votes to the Congress celebration, which hitherto within the final two elections had stayed with the BRS.

The unity among the many Congress leaders — notably 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 celebration nominee. A kind 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 Meeting 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. Your entire burden of main the marketing campaign fell on KTR and he needed to lead the celebration 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 celebration leaders additionally didn’t wholeheartedly marketing campaign within the election for the celebration candidate.

Poor present by BJP

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

The Congress celebration can not afford a laid again perspective after its spectacular victory in Jubilee Hills byelection, because it has to go a good distance in repeating its successful methods within the native our bodies polls additionally.