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BJP wrests Jayanagar seat by 16 votes in recount, Cong's Soumya Reddy to complain with EC

  •   Sun, May 14 2023 01:41:26 PM

Bengaluru, May 14 (IANS): In a dramatic development, the BJP has wrested Jayanagar Assembly seat in Bengaluru from the Congress party by a margin of only 16 votes, following which the later has decided to complain to the Election Commission (EC).

BJP candidate C.K. Ramamurthy won the seat by defeating sitting MLA Sowmya Reddy of Congress party by the margin of only 16 votes.

The result was announced late Saturday night after recounting three times. Initially, Sowmya Reddy was declared as winner by 160 votes.

Sowmya Reddy has decided to file a complaint challenging the results to the Election Commission. "I won initially. Bengaluru South MP Tejasvi Surya and BJP MLA R. Ashoka had entered the counting centre illegally and fabricated the results," she stated.

BJP candidate Rammurthy polled 57,797 votes while Sowmya Reddy secured 57,781 votes. The situation turned serious when Karnataka Congress President D.K. Shivakumar came to the spot. His brother, MP from Bengaluru Rural seat D.K. Suresh got into an argument with the police.

Congress and BJP workers came into confrontation mode and the police had a tough time controlling the situation.

With this, the Congress has won 135 seats in the 224-member Karnataka Assembly. The BJP has secured 66 seats and the JD(S) 19, according to the Election Commission.

 
  

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  • j.anata, Mangaluru / Bengaluru

    Sun, May 14 2023

    Tejaswi Surya brought out anomaly in counting else Congress would've won this seat. BJP leaders need to file court case and seek re-counting in Sringeri (Congress won by 260 votes) , Malur (won by 241 votes) and most important Gandhinagara where Dinesh Gundu Rao was decalred winner by 105 votes. The polling officer here hurriedly gave certificate, locked office and ran away!

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  • Chandu, Karla

    Sun, May 14 2023

    According to you all counting is wrong...BJP should have won all 224 seats....!!!!

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  • Rudolf Rodrigues, Mumbai/Mangalore

    Sun, May 14 2023

    This bungling of number of votes mismatch definitely deserves a revoting as there seems to be something not okay, IMHO!!

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  • Rudolf Rodrigues, Mumbai/Mangalore

    Sun, May 14 2023

    If I am not terribly mistaken, there are numerous reports of names of people, mysteriously, missing from the voters list when they reached the booths for voting??

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  • roy Indian, Mangalore

    Sun, May 14 2023

    this is how BJP shameless party won in D.K and udupi ............. making manipulative votes

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  • Ganesh, Mangalore

    Sun, May 14 2023

    What kind of logic is this . if they have ability to manipulate in coastal they can also manipulate in rest of Karntaka and win right?.

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  • Rudolf Rodrigues, Mumbai/Mangalore

    Sun, May 14 2023

    For some people winning is by using anything under everything under the ☀️; how come news reports of a large chunk of voters 🆔 went mysteriously missing when they checked in to the polling booths?

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  • Vinod Kumar, Mangalore

    Sun, May 14 2023

    Why was the attempt to second count once a candidate is declared won????.?..

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  • real kujuma, kodial

    Sun, May 14 2023

    i heard that daku and feku are cursing election commission IT expert for not doing the job of setting evms properly....lolzzzzzzzzzz..this time the non-blue political parties were very alert and caught many things like distribution of cash etc by the brashta people..so the duo in delhi got scared i believe.

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  • Edmond, Bantwal

    Sun, May 14 2023

    Kujuli: if BJP winds the evm hacking... if congress is winning then? Now you have fight within congress for cm post .. already poster fight is going on... whoever be the cm I pray to God to get 200 unit's of free electricity as told in gymuarabtee card...

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  • John Louis Cunha, Bondel / Bangalore

    Sun, May 14 2023

    Problem is with postal ballots. you can visit ECI website which shows BJP got 500 postal ballots in the 2nd recount. During the original count it was less.

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  • Rudolf Rodrigues, Mumbai/Mangalore

    Sun, May 14 2023

    If this type of goof up is possible 😉 in a supposedly fool proof system, then similar goofups may have occurred in other places too, is it not?

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  • Flavian, Mangalore/Kuwait

    Sun, May 14 2023

    BJP is well known for their manipulative powers. When ambitions get out of hand people are vulnerable to manipulation by others.

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  • real kujuma, kodial

    Sun, May 14 2023

    some evm gotala i think..the election officer must be secret agent of chaddis..

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  • Satya, Mangalore

    Sun, May 14 2023

    It's like wrongly announced PUC and SSLC results.

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  • Sunil K, Mangalore

    Sun, May 14 2023

    Don't expect Election Commission to do anything - they are spineless puppets. The court will treat illegally entering the counting centre by Surya and Ashoka as a criminal offence and Surya and Ashoka have now destroyed their political careers.

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  • Thousif, Mangalore, bolar

    Sun, May 14 2023

    Really how it possible 160 to 16 . Should be re vote..

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  • ayes p, kudla/ksa

    Sun, May 14 2023

    Before + 160 for one candidate after +16 for another candidate, how the difference?

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  • Rudolf Rodrigues, Mumbai

    Sun, May 14 2023

    The losing candidate should request a revote if it's allowed by election commission!!!

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  • Rudolf Rodrigues, Mumbai

    Sun, May 14 2023

    How can +160 go to -16 after recounting; something seems to be wrong somewhere!!

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