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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.
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Agents of the Maski bypoll candidates outside the counting centre in Raichur on Sunday.
| Photo Credit: Santosh Sagar For the BJP, Maski Assembly seat was prestigious because the battle here, unlike the ones in Belagavi and Maski, was necessitated because its candidate, earlier with the Congress, had defected to the party and later been disqualified. BJP candidate Pratapgouda Patil was among the 17 MLAs of the then ruling Congress-JD(S) coalition who defected to the BJP and helped it come to power in the State.
However, the anti-incumbency wave sweeping across the constituency against Mr. Patil has resulted an impressive win for Congress candidate Basanagouda Turvihal, who was with the BJP back in 2018. Mr. Turvihal won the election by 30,606 votes against Mr. Patil, who polled 55,731 votes.
Congress encouraged by one win and a narrow loss in Karnataka bypolls
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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
Congress set to retain Maski Assembly seat in Karnataka bypolls
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Bengaluru, May 3 : Karnataka s opposition Congress is set to retain the Maski (reserved) Assembly seat as its candidate Basanagouda Turuvihal was leading by a margin of 30,606 votes over ruling BJP s nominee Pratapgouda Patil, as per poll officials. Turuvihal polled 86,337 votes, with 59.27 per cent vote share so far, while Patil secured 55,731 votes, with 38.26 per cent vote share, a poll official told IANS on phone.
Of 2,06,429-strong electorate in Maski in Raichur district, 1,45,458 voted, resulting in 70.40 per cent polling.
The vacancy in Maski was caused due to the disqualification of Patil, who defected from the Congress to the BJP in November 2019.
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THE TIMES OF INDIA | May 02, 2021, 15:13:07 IST