BRS leader Maganti Gopinath wins the seat by a margin of 16,337 votes. Other candidates in the fray include Deepak Reddy of BJP and AIMIM's Rashed Farazuddin.
Former Indian cricket captain Mohammed Azharuddin, whose career was cut short by match-fixing scandal, is contesting polls for first time since loss in 2014 Lok Sabha elections.
A theme has not yet emerged for BJP & people see lack of a contest, which makes it unexciting. For all these reasons, 2024 is turning out to be an unexpectedly theme-less election.
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