Jubilee Hills Bypoll: Polling begins on a brisk note

Polling began on a brisk in the presence if a large posse of policemen for the Jubilee Hills Bypoll in Telangana on Tuesday (November 11, 2025) as polling stations opened for voting at 7 a.m.

In the densely populated Yellareddyguda citizens queueed and waited for their turns to cast their ballots. At the Padala Rama Reddy Law College in Yellareddyguda which has seven polling stations people began reaching the spot from 6.30 a.m. onwards. 

The Election Commission of India set up Voter Assistance Booths to help voters find their names on the voting list doing similar work of kiosks set up by candidates of political parties. 

“I am always first in the family to cast my vote. This has been a norm with me over the past 36 years whenever thera’s been an election,” said Md Farooq Ali, a businessman in his 50s who lives in the area. 

The bypoll in the constituency no 61 of Telangana Legislative Assembly has been necessitated due to the death of Bharat Rashtra Samithi MLA Maganti Gopinath. The BRS has now fielded Maganti Sunitha while the Congress party has fielded Naveen Yadav with the All India Majlis Ittehadul Muslimeen backing the Congress candidate.