BENGALURU: In the closely-fought Karnataka Assembly elections, the place the Congress decimated the BJP and the JD-S with a historic mandate, the celebration additionally delivered a robust efficiency in JD-S bastions of Tumkur and Mandya districts the place it gained 13 of the overall 18 seats. Tumkur has 10 Assembly seats whereas the Mandya district has eight.
In Tumkur district, the Congress gained seven seats whereas the BJP gained two and JD-S one seat. The meeting constituencies of Tumkur includes Chiknayakanhalli, Tiptur, Turuvekere, Tumkur City, Tumkur Rural, Koratagere, Gubbi, Sira, Pavagadha and Madhugiri. Similarly in Mandya district, the Congress gained six seats whereas the BJP scored nil, the JD-S was capable of win one seat whereas one seat was gained by Sarvodaya Karnataka Paksha.
Mandya has eight meeting, specifically Malavalli, Maddur, Melukote, Mandya, Shrirangapattana, Nagamangala, Krishnarajpete, and Krishnarajanagara. The celebration credited the victory within the JD-S redoubts to its Rajya Sabha MP G.C. Chandrashekar, a Vokkaliga chief. According to celebration leaders, he’s the person behind the victory for the 13 seats in Tumkur and Mandya district serving as incharge of the 2 districts for the final two years.
A Congress chief mentioned that Chandrashekar was capable of consolidate the vokkaliga base in these two essential districts. “He had taken the party leadership into confidence during ticket announcement only, and had promised the leadership that party will win minimum 10 seats combined in the district,” the celebration chief, wishing to not be named, mentioned.
The celebration chief identified that Chandrashekar, who belongs to Gangatkar Vokkaliga caste, similar as S.M. Krishna and D.Okay. Shivakumar, had been working in these two districts tirelessly for 2 years, and his enter was essential for ticket distribution with full help from celebration management even when the celebration survey went in opposition to his wishes.
In Mandya, the celebration had drawn a clean in 2018 Assembly elections whereas it managed to win solely two seats in Tumkur.
