Ex Telangana Minister Eatala Rajender, Now BJP, Leads Huzurabad Bypoll

Huzurabad bypoll is a matter of prestige for both the TRS and the BJP, and the Congress has alleged that the two parties were luring voters with cash payments

The BJP's Eatala Rajender is narrowly ahead in the race for Telangana's Huzurabad Assembly constituency, leading the ruling TRS' Gellu Srinivas Yadav by less than 4,000 votes.

The Congress' Balmoor Venkat Narsing Rao is a distant third with fewer than 1,500 votes.

The battle for Huzurabad is being keenly observed because Mr Rajender - who won the seat in the 2018 full Assembly election - quit in June over corruption allegations related to land-grab charges.

He has denied all charges.