Maintaining his winning streak since 1989, Karnataka Congress chief and Vokkaliga strongman D K Shivakumar emerged victorious in the Assembly polls for the eighth consecutive time on Saturday,.
Mr Shivakumar secured 1,42,156 votes against the 20,561 votes polled by his Janata Dal (Secular) rival B Nagaraju. Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) R Ashoka was in third place with 19,602 votes.
Karnataka Congress chief D K Shivakumar is confident that he won't have to fight against BJP's R Ashoka in Kanakapura. “Every home in the constituency has a Shivakumar and they will fight the election for me,” he says