Chamarajanagar Lok Sabha Election Result 2019 Karnataka: BJP making Congress sweat to retain seat

BJP's VS Srinivas Prasad is not making it easy for the Congress's R Dhruvanarayana to retain his seat. The BJP was just 507 votes behind around 4 pm. In contrast, the Congress had won this seat with a margin of 1.41 lakh votes.

Constituency Profile

Chamarajanagar Lok Sabha constituency covers eight assembly segments –  Hanur, Kollegal, Chamarajanagar, Gundlupet, T.Narasipura, Nanjangud, Heggadadevankote and, Varuna.

In 2014, R Dhruvanarayana of the Congress won by 1.41 lakh votes, beating BJP’s AR Krishna Murthy.

Dhruvanarayana had beaten AR Krishna Murthy in 2009 as well.

R Dhruvanarayana is back on the fray and taking on BJP’s Srinivasa Prasad and will hope to complete a hat-trick.

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The seats going to poll in the 2nd phase are Bangalore Central, Bangalore North. Bangalore Rural, Bangalore South, Chamarajanagar, Chikkballapur, Chitradurga, Dakshina Kannada, Hassan, Kolar, Mandya, Mysore, Tumkur and Udupi Chikmagalur.

According to the officials, 237 candidates are in the field in 14 Lok Sabha constituencies that will go to polls in the second phase on April 23.

The officials said 45 candidates have withdrawn their nomination on Monday, the last day to withdraw papers for the second phase.

Belgaum with 57 has the maximum number of candidates, while Raichur with five have the lowest in the second phase, as well as in both phases on the whole.

For the first phase of polls on April 18, 241 candidates are in the fray.  In 2014, BJP won 17 seats, Congress won 9 and the JD(S) two.