Hyderabad: Congress wins Lingojiguda bypoll

The ward has a total electorate of 47,379 and 13,591 of them had cast their votes.

Hyderabad: The Congress party has won the Lingojiguda ward by-election. The party’s candidate D Rajshekar Reddy won by a margin of around 1,200 votes over his nearest rival, Akhil Goud of the Bharatiya Janata Party.

The TRS did not contest the election on humanitarian grounds.

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The votes were counted on Friday at the Victoria Memorial Home School in Kothapet.

The ward has a total electorate of 47,379 and 13,591 of them had cast their votes.

The by-election was necessitated following the demise of corporator-elect Akula Ramesh Goud who contested on behalf of the BJP in the GHMC elections held in December 2020.

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