Following the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) dismal performance in the Jubilee Hills bypoll, Goshamahal MLA T Raja Singh released a statement appealing to senior leaders to "save the party".
"I don’t think the BJP will come to power for another 50 years in Telangana. Maybe you should learn from other states how to win. If I said anything wrong, please forgive me, but consider my words; otherwise, the BJP will fade in here," he appealed to Union Ministers Bandi Sanjay and Kishan Reddy, and former BJP state president K Laxman.
Raja Singh had previously resigned from the saffron party in June over N Ramchander Rao being appointed as the party’s state president.
The BJP candidate, Lankala Deepak Reddy, came in third with 17,061 votes in the Jubilee Hills by-election, which was necessitated after the passing of Maganti Gopinath in June this year. The seat was won by the Congress's Naveen Yadav with 98,988 votes, while the BRS candidate Maganti Sunitha trailed behind in second place with 74,259 votes.
Kishan Reddy, who represents the Secunderabad constituency in the Lok Sabha (which includes the Jubilee Hills Assembly constituency), was hit with criticism from Chief Minister Revanth Reddy over the party’s falling vote share. "Kishan Reddy should think about why the BJP’s votes have decreased from 65,000 to 17,000. People have noticed his behaviour. The Jubilee Hills result should be seen as a tremor before an earthquake," the CM had remarked. Meanwhile, Kishan Reddy credited the Congress's win to the support they received from the AIMIM. He also alleged that the Congress had distributed money to voters and said a formal complaint would be lodged with the Election Commission on the issue. He has, however, assured that the party would review the by-election result and redouble its efforts to win the Mayor’s post in the upcoming GHMC (Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation) elections.
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