Congress candidate & ex-cricket captain Azharuddin narrowly leading in Telangana's Jubilee Hills

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Hyderabad: Former Indian cricket team captain Mohammed Azharuddin, the Congress candidate in Telanganas Jubilee Hills constituency, was leading againstsitting MLA and Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) leader Maganti Gopinath by a margin of 653votes as of 12 pm, according to Election Commission (EC) data...

Other candidates in the fray include Deepak Reddy of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeens (AIMIM) Rashed Farazuddin, trailing in fourth and third place respectively...

With a total of 3,75,452 registered voters according to the EC, the constituency recorded a voting percentage of 44.20 percent Thursday...

He had previously been elected as the Moradabad (Uttar Pradesh) Lok Sabha MP in 2009 and was defeated in Tonk-Sawai Madhopur (Rajasthan) contest in 2014, both times representing the Congress..

Although he was expected to contest in the 2018 assembly polls, the party kept him in reserve, making him a Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC) working president..

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