evidence: The BJP leadership gave much importance to the Dubbaka electoral victory. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has tweeted his greeting to the people and the party workers for the surprise results, followed by Union Home Minister Amit Shah and BJP national president J.P. Nadda calling up both the winner M Raghunandan Rao and Telangana party unit president and MP Bandi Sanjay just after the results. [...] Raghunandan Rao, 55, a journalist-turned lawyer, unsuccessfully contested Dubbaka in 2018 December Assembly elections and also 2019 Lok Sabha polls from Medak (of which Dubbaka is a part). Rao, in fact, was earlier in TRS and worked as its Medak district president. He fell apart from KCR and joined BJP in 2014. KCR offered TRS ticket to Ramalinga Reddy’s wife Sujatha, a housewife, and Congress fielded Cheruku Srinivas Reddy, son of another late former MLA from this seat Muthyam Reddy. Harish Rao, KCR’s nephew, has been entrusted with the responsibility of getting Sujatha elected, while Congress united all groups in the party and focused its energies on winning the bypolls.