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Bangalore: Margaret Alva, Poojary, Ambareesh Among the Losers

  •   Sat, May 16 2009 01:46:26 PM

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Bangalore, May 16: Bangalore, May 16: Among the prominent politicians in Karnataka, Congress veterans Margaret Alva and B. Janardhana Poojary lost in the Lok Sabha elections Saturday while former chief minister and Janata Dal-Secular leader H.D. Kumaraswamy won, as results started pouring in.

Margaret Alva lost in Uttara Kannada to sitting Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) member Anath Kumar Hegde by 22,769 votes. She had lost to Hegde in 2004 also.

Janardhana Poojary, a former central minister, lost to the BJP's Nalin Kumar Kateel by 40,420 votes in the Dakshina Kannada constituency.

H.D. Kumaraswamy wrested the Bangalore Rural seat from the Congress by a margin of 130,275 votes. He avenged the defeat of his father and former prime minister H.D. Deve Gowda who had lost to Congress novice Tejaswini Gowda in the 2004 polls.

According to election officials, the BJP has retained the Chikkodi, Bijapur (SC) and Bellary (ST) seats, while it bagged the redrawn Haveri constituency in Malnad region.

The Congress wrested the Mysore seat from the BJP, when its candidate A.H. Vishwanath defeated sitting MP C.H. Vijayashankar by a margin of 7,691 votes.

In Chikkodi, BJP nominee Katti Ramesh Vishwanath defeated P.B. Hukkeri of the Congress by 55,049 votes, while in Bijapur (SC), the party's Ramesh Chandapur Jigajinagi defeated P.K. Rathod of the Congress by 42,404 votes.

In the iron-ore-rich Bellary (ST) constituency, BJP's lone woman candidate in the state J. Shanta defeated N.Y. Hanumanthappa of the Congress by a slender margin of 2,243 in a close contest.

In Haveri, Udasi Shivkumar Chanabasappa defeated Saleem Ahamed of the Congress by 88,220 votes.

Kannada film star and central junior minister M H Ambareesh of Congress lost to N Cheluvara Swamy of the Janata Dal-Secular (JD-S) by 23,677 votes in Mandya parliamentary constituency as the results were declared Saturday.
  

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  • clarence miranda, mangalore

    Sun, May 17 2009

    Congratulations to the people of Mangalore & Karnataka for voting out these useless congress leaders. But the sad part is the canidates from dangerous BJP got elected. Hope that the congress high command will throw out all these inept congress leaders, who think it is their birth right to stand elections.

    If these useless leaders like, Poojary, Oscar, Placid, Alva are not set aside, there is no hope for congress in Mangalore and we will suffer because of this.

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