<span style="color: #222222;">In Telangana, the BJP candidate, Eatala Rajender is marching ahead in the By-poll to Huzurabad Assembly Constituency. He is registering an increase in the lead after every round of counting. He is leading by over 19 thousand votes by the end of 19th round over his immediate TRS rival G Srinivas Yadav while the Congress candidate B. Venkat Narsing Rao is a distant third. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The by-poll gained importance as former Minister, Rajender, who won the seat in the 2018 election has quit the TRS in June over corruption allegations related to land-grab charges. He has denied all charges. The then Health Minister was removed from the state cabinet, after which he resigned as Huzurabad MLA and quit the TRS. He joined the BJP days later in Delhi, in the presence of party chief JP Nadda.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Rajender is a four-time MLA from Huzurabad, having won it in every election since it was created ahead of the 2009 polls.</span><br />