Bengaluru: The Bharatiya Janata Party and its ally Janata Dal (Secular) have suffered a major setback in the by-elections held in Karnataka. The party contested by-elections to Sandur and Shigaon assembly seats in the state and the party suffered a crushing defeat in both the seats. At the same time, Nikhil Kumaraswamy, son of former Chief Minister and current Union Minister HD Kumaraswamy, contested from the state’s Channapatna seat, but he too faced defeat at the hands of the Congress candidate. Thus, while on the one hand the BJP alliance was completely demoralized, on the other hand the Congress scored a major psychological victory.
2-2 Sons of former Chief Ministers lost
HD Kumaraswamy’s son Nikhil Kumaraswamy, contesting from Channapatna, was defeated by his rival and Congress candidate CP Yogeswar by a margin of 25413 votes. Yogeshwar got 112642 votes and Nikhil got 87229 votes. Talking about Sandur assembly seat, Congress’ E Annapurna got 93616 votes and BJP candidate Hanumanthu Bangaru got 83967 votes. Thus the Congress candidate has won by 9649 votes. While in Shigaon, Yasir Ahmed Khan Pathan of Congress has defeated BJP candidate and son of former Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai, Bharat Bommai by a margin of 13448 votes. In this way, 2-2 sons of former chief ministers have faced defeat in Karnataka.
Big defeat of BJP in Jharkhand too
Let us tell you that BJP has faced a big defeat in the Jharkhand assembly elections too. On the one hand, the JMM-led alliance is seen leading in more than 50 seats, while the BJP alliance is seen going for less than 30 seats. However, the magic of BJP+ is working in full swing in Maharashtra and the alliance seems to be winning over 220 seats. The surprising thing is that the BJP, which contested on less than 150 seats, is seen winning around 125 seats here. If seen in this way, on one hand, BJP has got disappointment from Jharkhand, on the other hand, Maharashtra has also given reason to be happy.
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