BRS president and former Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao on Wednesday approved Nivedita's candidature. The main opposition party hopes to take advantage of the sympathy created after Nandita's death within three months of her election in the 2023 assembly elections.
The by-election to Secunderabad Cantonment, one of the assembly constituencies of Malkajgiri Lok Sabha constituency, is scheduled to be held along with the Lok Sabha elections on May 13.
Nandita, 37, who died in a car accident near Hyderabad on February 23, was the daughter of BRS leader and five-time MLA from Secunderabad constituency G Sayana, who died due to illness on February 19 last year.
He defeated his nearest rival BJP's Narayanan Sri Ganesh by 17,169 votes. He recently joined the ruling Congress and made Mr Ganesh its candidate for the by-election.
The by-election is crucial for the Congress, which has a slim majority in the assembly and will try to make inroads in Hyderabad after it faced defeat in the state capital in the 2023 elections. The Congress had won 64 seats in the 119-member assembly, but did not get any seats in the Greater Hyderabad region, which elects 24 MLAs.
This by-election is also important for the Congress because Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy was elected from Malkajgiri Lok Sabha seat in 2019.
The by-election to Secunderabad Cantonment, one of the assembly constituencies of Malkajgiri Lok Sabha constituency, is scheduled to be held along with the Lok Sabha elections on May 13.
Nandita, 37, who died in a car accident near Hyderabad on February 23, was the daughter of BRS leader and five-time MLA from Secunderabad constituency G Sayana, who died due to illness on February 19 last year.
He defeated his nearest rival BJP's Narayanan Sri Ganesh by 17,169 votes. He recently joined the ruling Congress and made Mr Ganesh its candidate for the by-election.
The by-election is crucial for the Congress, which has a slim majority in the assembly and will try to make inroads in Hyderabad after it faced defeat in the state capital in the 2023 elections. The Congress had won 64 seats in the 119-member assembly, but did not get any seats in the Greater Hyderabad region, which elects 24 MLAs.
This by-election is also important for the Congress because Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy was elected from Malkajgiri Lok Sabha seat in 2019.
