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BJP hopes to win Jubilee Hills seat for Prime Minister Modi
The Statesman Siliguri
|October 11, 2025
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.
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.
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.
This story is from the October 11, 2025 edition of The Statesman Siliguri.
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