Deve Gowda Leading in Tumkur, One Grandson Ahead in Hassan But Another Trailing in Mandya; Sumalatha Ambareesh Ahead: Karnataka Election Result Latest Updates
It’s a mixed bag for the Gowda family. Former prime minister Deve Gowda is leading in Tumkur, but grandson Nikhil Kumaraswamy is trailing in Mandya. Another grandson, Prajwal Revanna, is leading in Hassan.
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Karnataka Lok Sabha Election Results 2019: Janata Dal (Secular) leader Deve Gowda is currently leading from Tumkur Lok Sabha constituency. One of his grandsons, Nikhil Kumaraswamy, is trailing in Mandya, but another grandson, Prajwal Revanna, is leading in Hassan. Tejaswi Surya is also leading from Bangalore South. The Lok Sabha polls are a crucial one because the very survival of the Kumaraswamy’s coalition government in the state hinges on the performance of the Janata Dal (Secular) and the Congress in the general elections. Cracks have already started appearing in the coalition government after exit polls predicted a successful outing for the Narendra Modi and Amit Shah led BJP in the state. JD(S) spokesperson Tanvir Ahmed has threatened “trouble” for the coalition if numbers don’t favour the alliance today while Congress leader Brijesh Kalappa replied in the same coin, saying poll results 2019 are bound to have an impact on the coalition.
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It’s a mixed bag for the Gowda family. Former prime minister Deve Gowda is leading in Tumkur, but grandson Nikhil Kumaraswamy is trailing in Mandya. Another grandson, Prajwal Revanna, is leading in Hassan.
Tejaswi Surya who is making his political debut as a BJP candidate from Bangalore South is currently leading
Sadananda Gowda, former CM of Karnataka who is the current MP from Bangalore North and is also re-contesting from the same constituency, has expressed confidence in winning his constituency. He said that he served for the last 5 years and this work, alongside “Narendra Modi's image” and the “bad relationship” between the JDS-Congress coalition will ensure him a win.
Counting of postal ballots began early in two Lok Sabha constituencies, Hassan and Koppal in Karnataka. Deve Gowda’s grandson Prajwal Revanna of the JDS is leading.
Senior Congress leader, seven-time MLA and former minister R Roshan Baig has turned up the poll heat in the state, calling state Congress president Dinesh Gundurao a “flop show” and former chief minister Siddaramaiah an “arrogant leader”. He also said that portfolios in the ruling JDS-Congress government were "sold" and minorities were ignored.
May 23, the counting day, is an acid test for the ruling JDS-Congress government whose fate rests on winning at least 15 seats so as to ensure stability in their rule.
According to the seat-sharing agreement, the Congress is contesting 21 of 28 Lok Sabha seats in the state, while the JDS is fighting on seven.
As for the BJP, its main challenge is to retain the 17 seats it won in the 2014 general elections given that Karnataka remains the saffron party’s only ray of hope as far as the southern states are concerned.
The most prominent contestants in the state are Deve Gowda, his grandsons Prajwal Revanna and Nikhil Kumaraswamy, Union Minister of Statistics and Programme Implementation Sadananda Gowda, who has also served as Karnataka chief minister and BJP candidate from Bangalore South Tejaswi Surya.
The other constituency where the fight merits consideration is Shimoga from where two former chief ministers’ sons are contesting. BY Raghavendra, son of BS Yeddyurappa, is contesting on a BJP ticket. He had previously held the seat from 2009 to 2014, post which Yeddyurappa took over as MP. After winning the bypolls, Raghavendra again took over as the MP from this constituency.
Contesting against Raghavendra in Shimoga is Madhu Bangarappa, son of Sarekoppa Bangarappa who served as the chief minister for about two years in the 90s.
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Follow all the live updates from the Lok Sabha elections results here:
Here’s all you need to know about result and counting day in Karnataka:
It’s a mixed bag for the Gowda family. Former prime minister Deve Gowda is leading in Tumkur, but grandson Nikhil Kumaraswamy is trailing in Mandya. Another grandson, Prajwal Revanna, is leading in Hassan.
Tejaswi Surya who is making his political debut as a BJP candidate from Bangalore South is currently leading
Sadananda Gowda, former CM of Karnataka who is the current MP from Bangalore North and is also re-contesting from the same constituency, has expressed confidence in winning his constituency. He said that he served for the last 5 years and this work, alongside “Narendra Modi's image” and the “bad relationship” between the JDS-Congress coalition will ensure him a win.
Counting of postal ballots began early in two Lok Sabha constituencies, Hassan and Koppal in Karnataka. Deve Gowda’s grandson Prajwal Revanna of the JDS is leading.
Senior Congress leader, seven-time MLA and former minister R Roshan Baig has turned up the poll heat in the state, calling state Congress president Dinesh Gundurao a “flop show” and former chief minister Siddaramaiah an “arrogant leader”. He also said that portfolios in the ruling JDS-Congress government were "sold" and minorities were ignored.
May 23, the counting day, is an acid test for the ruling JDS-Congress government whose fate rests on winning at least 15 seats so as to ensure stability in their rule.
According to the seat-sharing agreement, the Congress is contesting 21 of 28 Lok Sabha seats in the state, while the JDS is fighting on seven.
As for the BJP, its main challenge is to retain the 17 seats it won in the 2014 general elections given that Karnataka remains the saffron party’s only ray of hope as far as the southern states are concerned.
The most prominent contestants in the state are Deve Gowda, his grandsons Prajwal Revanna and Nikhil Kumaraswamy, Union Minister of Statistics and Programme Implementation Sadananda Gowda, who has also served as Karnataka chief minister and BJP candidate from Bangalore South Tejaswi Surya.
The other constituency where the fight merits consideration is Shimoga from where two former chief ministers’ sons are contesting. BY Raghavendra, son of BS Yeddyurappa, is contesting on a BJP ticket. He had previously held the seat from 2009 to 2014, post which Yeddyurappa took over as MP. After winning the bypolls, Raghavendra again took over as the MP from this constituency.
Contesting against Raghavendra in Shimoga is Madhu Bangarappa, son of Sarekoppa Bangarappa who served as the chief minister for about two years in the 90s.
(Get detailed and live results of each and every seat in the Lok Sabha elections and state Assembly elections in Andhra Pradesh, Odisha, Arunachal Pradesh and Sikkim to know which candidate/party is leading or trailing and to know who has won and who has lost and by what margin. Our one-of-its-kind Election Analytics Centre lets you don a psephologist’s hat and turn into an election expert. Know interesting facts and trivia about the elections and see our informative graphics. Elections = News18)