Cong wins Jubilee Hills Assembly bypoll, shot in arm for CM Revanth Reddy
Hyderabad (PTI): Congress candidate V Naveen Yadav on Friday won the by-election to Jubilee Hills Assembly constituency by a majority of over 24,729 votes.
Yadav secured 98,988 votes, while his nearest BRS rival Maganti Sunitha got 74,259 votes, election officials said.
BJP nominee Lankala Deepak Reddy, who managed to obtain 17,061 votes, stood third and forfeited his security deposit.
Yadav had consistently maintained his lead over his BRS rival in all the rounds during the counting of votes at the Kotla Vijaya Bhaskar Reddy indoor stadium here.
The bypoll was necessitated by the death of BRS MLA Maganti Gopinath in June this year following a heart attack.
BRS fielded his widow Sunitha as its candidate.
Consequent to the Jubilee Hills win, the strength of ruling Congress rose to 66 in 119-member Telangana Assembly.
Congress leaders and activists were in joy as Yadav's victory became certain during the counting of votes.
They burst crackers and distributed sweets at Gandhi Bhavan here, the headquarters of Congress in Telangana.
The victory of Congress in Jubilee Hills by-election, preceded by its win in the bypoll to Secunderabad Cantonment segment held last year, further strengthens Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy's leadership.
Though the outcome of the by-election would have no bearing on the government's stability, it was seen as a test of the Congress government's popularity.
The Jubilee Hills by-election became crucial for BRS as it drew a blank in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls, preceded by its shock defeat in the 2023 assembly polls.
Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC) president B Mahesh Kumar Goud said the party candidate's win in the bypoll is an endorsement of the Revanth Reddy government's performance.
The success of Congress in the bypolls to Secunderabad Cantonment seat last year and Jubilee Hills now shows that the people are satisfied with CM Reddy's leadership and the government's welfare programmes, he said.
"When BRS won zero seats in 2024 Lok Sabha elections, it was clear that it did not have any future in the state. BRS has failed to retain its seat now. The verdict of the people of Jubilee Hills is that BRS has no place in the state," Goud told reporters in Nizamabad.
The Congress government would work as per the aspirations of the people for the remaining three years of its current tenure and the party would win 100 of the total 119 seats in the next assembly polls in 2028 , he said.
BRS Working President K T Rama Rao said the bypoll result unambiguously showed that his party is the alternative to the ruling Congress.
Asserting that the BRS has effectively exposed the Congress government's failure during the last two years, he said the grand old party did not win any bypolls from 2014 to 2023, but managed to come to power in the assembly polls in 2023.
Speaking to reporters in Delhi, BJP leader and Union Coal Minister G Kishan Reddy pointed out that the AIMIM supported the Congress candidate. Of the total four lakh votes in Jubilee Hills, Muslim voters constitute 1.49 lakh.
Moreover, the Congress and BRS distributed money on a large scale and the state government did not cooperate with the Election Commission, he alleged, favouring elimination of money power in the elections.
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Tripura student's partner put sanitiser in her private parts, filmed her nude: Gurugram police
Gurugram (PTI): Days after a 19-year-old woman from Tripura was hospitalised in a serious condition following an assault by her live-in partner, police on Sunday said that the accused also burned her private parts using sanitiser and filmed her nude.
The woman’s mother alleged that the accused, who befriended her daughter online and had promised to marry her, confined her to a room for three days and even forced her to drink urine.
According to police, the woman’s condition is now stable.
The accused, Shivam (19), a resident of Delhi’s Narela, was arrested on Thursday based on an FIR registered against him at the Badshahpur police station.
The woman’s mother, a police officer in Tripura, claimed that on February 16, around 10 pm, she received a distress call from her daughter.
My daughter told me, "I don't have time, I will be killed... Shivam has been beating me and burning me for the last three days. He will kill me today."
The mother further alleged that the accused confined her daughter to a room for three days and tortured her. She also accused Shivam of forcing her daughter to drink urine and burning her private parts using sanatiser.
She said the accused also stabbed her daughter multiple times.
The mother then approached the Gurugram police, who rescued her daughter.
"My daughter is very bright in her studies. She had come to Gurugram to study. However, Shivam lured her into a trap through an online app. My daughter's condition is very serious,” she said, adding that strict action should be taken against the accused.
Earlier, police said that Shivam had allegedly established physical relations with the woman who is a college student, promising her marriage.
The couple had been living together in a paying guest accommodation in Sector 69 for the last few months. During this period, he allegedly began assaulting her after suspecting her of cheating.
A Gurugram Police spokesperson said the case has been marked for close monitoring.
“Charges of rape and assault have already been added to the FIR, and the accused has been sent to jail. Further investigation is underway,” he said.
The spokesperson added that the woman’s condition is now stable.
Police had said that on February 19, the couple had an altercation after which the accused assaulted the woman, severely injuring her. Upon receiving a call from her mother police reached the flat and rescued her.
The accused allegedly attacked the victim in a fit of rage, suspecting her of cheating on him, police had said.
The woman was initially admitted to AIIMS-Delhi and is currently undergoing treatment at Safdarjung Hospital in Delhi, police said.
