The ruling Congress occasion in Karnataka acquired a lift in bypolls with the occasion sweeping all of the three seats towards expectations to supply some solace amid the crushing Maharashtra loss.
The Congress received the Channapatna seat in south Karnataka by a margin of 25,413 votes, the Shiggaon seat in central Karnataka by 13,448 votes and Sandur in north Karnataka by 9,649 votes. The Congress thus retained the Sandur seat and managed to wrest Channapatna and Shiggaon from the NDA allies – the JDS and BJP respectively.
In Channapatna, the BJP turncoat C P Yogeshwar delivered a major win for the Congress over NDA union minister and former CM H D Kumaraswamy’s son Nikhil Kumaraswamy.
The victory of Yogeshwar is seen as a symbolic win for Karnataka Congress chief D Ok Shivakumar who backed his candidature in what was seen as a private battle with the JDS chief Kumaraswamy for the management of the Vokkaliga group in south Karnataka.
The union minister for heavy industries Kumaraswamy suffered a setback on account of the third successive loss for his son Nikhil Kumaraswamy – who earlier misplaced the 2019 Lok Sabha polls within the Mandya seat and the 2023 state polls from Ramanagara.
Former BJP CM Basavaraj Bommai’s son, Bharat Bommai, misplaced to Congress’s Yasir Pathan. The seat was historically received by Bommai by forging an alliance between Muslims and Lingayats.
Bommai claimed that the Congress had achieved its victory “by unleashing a large flood of cash” and on account of being in energy within the state.
Within the Sandur seat the place the Congress was anticipated to win the occasion was given a troublesome combat by the BJP with Annapurna Tukaram, the spouse of the Bellary Congress MP E Tukaram profitable by a slim margin over the BJP candidate Banguru Hanumanthu.
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