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Hyderabad: Nominations of 130 candidates have been rejected in the Jubilee Hills Assembly by-election.
Returning Officer P. Sairam said, nominations of 81 candidates out of 211 have been accepted.
Due to the large number of nominations, scrutiny continued till late Wednesday night and the number of rejected nominations was announced on Thursday morning.
Out of 321 sets of nominations, 135 sets were accepted and the remaining 186 sets were rejected.
The nominations of the main contestants were found valid.
The nomination of Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) candidate Maganti Sunita has been accepted. Former MLA Maganti Gopinath’s wife Malini Devi and her son T. Pradhumna Kosaraju had alleged that Sunita had given wrong information in her affidavit. He had requested the Chief Electoral Officer to reject his nomination.
Kosaraju also claimed that Sunita was in a live-in relationship with his father until his death. He said that the only legally married wife of his father, Gopinath, was his mother, Malini Devi, whom he married on April 28, 1998. Since Gopinath had not divorced his mother, Malini Devi, he said his parents’ marriage remained intact.
BRS leader Gopinath, who had won the Jubilee Hills seat for the third consecutive time in 2023, died in June, necessitating the by-election.
The nominations of Congress candidate Naveen Yadav and BJP’s Lankala Deepak Reddy were also accepted by the Returning Officer.
On Tuesday, the last day of filing nominations, 117 candidates filed their nominations, taking the total number to 211.
A large number of candidates filed nominations, including farmers affected by the Regional Ring Road (RRR) project, residents whose houses were allegedly demolished by Hydra, farmers and unemployed youth.
These groups came into the field to register their protest against the government on various issues.
Friday is the last day to withdraw candidature. Voting is scheduled to take place on November 11, while counting of votes will take place on November 14.
He won the 2023 election by defeating former Indian cricket captain and Congress candidate Mohammad Azharuddin by 16,337 votes.
In the multi-cornered contest, Gopinath got 80,549 votes, while Azharuddin got 64,212 votes. BJP’s Deepak Reddy stood third with 25,866 votes.
All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM), whose candidate finished fourth in the 2023 elections, is not contesting the elections this time. The party led by Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi has announced its support to the Congress candidate.
–IANS