The big takeaway from Karnataka bypolls is that JD(S)-Congress alliance is working well on ground despite initial resentment among the workers post their tir-up. The alliance has ensured that BJP has lost its bastion of Bellary to Congress, which has won a prestige battle from there.
In total, BJP has lost 2 out of 3 Lok Sabha bypolls and both the assembly bypolls in Karnataka. The only consolation for BJP is in Shimoga where state party chief B S Yeddyurappa's son B Y Raghavendra defeated former chief minister S Bangarappa's son Madhu Bangarappa of JD(S) by over 52 thousand votes.
Congress' V S Ugrappa has won in Bellary defeating Shantha of BJP by2.46 lakh votes. Shantha is the sister of B Sriramulu, who gave up the seat after being elected to the state assembly in the polls in May this year.
JD(S) candidate L Shivarame Gowda prevailed against the BJP's new face Dr Siddaramaiah in Mandya by 324943 votes. Of the three Lok Sabha seats that went to the by-polls, BJP had held Shivamogga and Ballari and JD(S) Mandya.
In the Ramanagara assembly seat, Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy's wife Anitha Kumaraswamy won by 109137 in a virtual walk-over after BJP party candidate Chandrashekhar went back to Congress.
In the Jamkhandi assembly segment in north Karnataka, Congress candidate Anand Nyamgouda defeated BJP's Srikant Kulkarni by a margin of 39,480 votes, riding on a sympathy wave following his father and sitting MLA Siddu Nyamagoudas death in a road accident.The Ramanagara assembly seat was held by the JD(S) and Jamkhandi by the Congress.
With agency inputs