Bangalore: BJP Registers Victory  in All Three Constituencies

Daijiworld Media Network – Bangalore (SP)

Bangalore, May 13: Out of the three assembly seats in Karnataka for which by elections were held last month, result has come out in all of them. In Bangarpet constituency, BJP candidate, M Narayana Swamy, who crossed over from the Congress to BJP in Operation Kamala, has registered an emphatic victory, by polling 4,150 votes over and above his nearest rival, K M Narayanaswamy of the Congress, who polled 52,780 votes. Immediately after the result was announced, defeated JDS candidate, C Venkateshappa, who got only 9,255 votes, announced that he would be resigning from the party, blaming non-cooperative attitude on the part of local leaders of the JDS for his defeat.

C P Yogeshwar, S V Ramachandra and M Narayana Swamy

In Channapatna constituency, cine actor, C P Yogeshwar of the BJP, has been declared elected. He was steadily increasing his lead since the first round of counting. As M C Ashwath from the JDS, who had resigned from the JDS and joined the BJP, was reluctant to fight the by election, the BJP had fielded C P Yogeshwar here.

He won with a margin of 4,432 votes. Congress candidate, Raghunandan Ramanna, accepted his defeat publicly, even before the announcement of result officially.

The BJP candidate won from Jagalur constituency too. Its candidate, S V Ramachandra, was declared elected from here. His victory was never in doubt, as the margin of gap went on increasing with each round of vote counting since today morning. He defeated the Congress candidate by a margin of 13,335 votes. In this constituency, the performance of the JDS was very poor, as even an independent candidate polled more than the official JDS candidate.

BJP Bypoll Win Befitting Reply to Reckless Charges:Yeddyurappa

Bangalore, May 13 (PTI): Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa today termed BJP's victory in all three seats in the April 9 bypolls as a befitting reply to the "reckless charges" hurled against his government by opposition Congress and JDS.

"People have now given their reply to the allegations made against my government. Let the opposition learn from this and desist from making baseless allegations hereafter," he said.

BJP candidates won from the Jagalur, Chennapatna and Bangarpet constituencies.

Yeddyurappa also thanked the electorate and complimented the winners.

JDS state unit President and former Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy said victory or defeat is not a permanent phenomena in politics. "We are not perturbed by the defeat," he said.

He alleged that BJP had won the bypolls using money power and said JDS would chalk out plans to strengthen the party.