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BELAGAVI: It was down to the wire in the battle for Belagavi, with the last few rounds of counting deciding the winner of the April 17 Lok Sabha byelection here on Sunday.
BJP’s Mangala Angadi, wife of late Union minister Suresh Angadi, defeated Satish Jarkiholi by 5,240 votes after hours of counting turned the contest into a cliffhanger.
Shubham Shelke, the Maharashtra Ekikarna Samiti-backed independent candidate and tacitly supported by ruling Shiv Sena in Maharashtra in this border constituency, divided the dominant Maratha community votes and this led to the close encounter. Shelke secured 1.2 lakh votes which would have traditionally gone to the BJP.
Congress encouraged by one win and a narrow loss in Karnataka bypolls
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AAA Retaining Maski Assembly seat and putting up an impressive fight in Belagavi Lok Sabha constituency seem to be the bypoll takeaways for the Congress, which only last week won six out of 10 ULBs that went to the polls in the State.
Though partial, leaders believe that the success in these bypolls would boost the morale of party workers as despite a huge number of Ministers making it to the election arena, the Congress polled impressive numbers.
The bypolls coming about two years before the next Assembly elections also meant they were being seen as a performance indicator of the B.S. Yediyurappa-led BJP government in COVID-19 times. They were also seen as a test of the leadership of Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee chief D.K. Shivakumar. In the midst of rumours that he had a hand in the CD scandal involving BJP leader Ramesh Jarkiholi, brother of the Congress candidate
Karnataka s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Sunday wrested the Basavakalyan Assembly seat in Bidar district from the opposition Congress."BJP s candidate Sharanu Salagar won in Basavakalyan by a margin of 20,629 votes, defeating his .
In Basavakalyan bypoll, BJP’s Sharanu Salagar wins despite revolt
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AAA The choice of Sharanu Salagar, a Kalaburagi-based Lingayat leader, as BJP candidate in Basavakalyan had disappointed as many as 16 local aspirants. But despite the odds, he has managed an emphatic victory against his nearest rival, Mala B. Narayanarao of the Congress, with a margin of 20,629 votes. The byelection was necessitated by the death of her husband, but the sympathy factor does not appear to have worked for the Congress candidate.
Mallikarjun Khuba, a former MLA and the strongest frontline contender for the BJP ticket, had contested the bypoll as an Independent candidate and called Mr. Salagar an “outsider”. But this too did not prove a deterrent. Senior BJP Ministers V. Somanna and Laxman Savadi, who did not manage to persuade Mr. Khuba to withdraw from the fray, did succeed in weaning away a chunk of his supporters back to the party fold to support Mr. Salaga
BJP wrests Basavakalyan from Congress in a spectacular victory
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Sharanu Salagar defeats Mala Narayanrao by an impressive margin of 20,629 votes
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Sharanu Salagar defeats Mala Narayanrao by an impressive margin of 20,629 votes
BJP candidate Sharanu Salagar defeated his nearest rival Mala B. Narayanrao of the Congress by an impressive margin of 20,629 votes. The byelection to the constituency, which was necessitated by the demise of incumbent representative in the Assembly B. Narayanrao, was held on April 17 and counting was taken up on Sunday.
Counting began at B.V. Bhumareddy College in Bidar at 8 a.m. as scheduled after the strongroom where the EVMs were kept was opened in the presence of candidates and election and security officers, including Bidar Deputy Commissioner R. Ramachandran and Superintendent of Police Nagesh D.L.