Karnataka Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy's wife Anita Kumaraswamy has won the Ramanagara Assembly seat by a margin of more than 1 lakh votes on Tuesday. It was easy sailing for Anita as she won by a margin of 1,09,137 votes after BJP's nominee L. Chandrashekhar withdrew from the contest and rejoined the Congress two days before the polls on November 3.
Similarly, Congress's Anand S. Nyamagouda has won from the Jamkhandi Assembly seat, a Congress bastion, by a margin of 39,480 votes. BJP's Kulkarni Shrikant Subrao could manage only 57, 537 against Anand's 97,017.
Anand made a successful electoral debut, riding on a sympathy wave following the death of his father and sitting Congress MLA Siddu Nyamagouda. Former chief minister Siddaramaiah, the Congress MLA from neighbouring Badami assembly constituency, had invested lot of time for campaigning in Jamkhandi.
Meanwhile, the Congress-JD(S) alliance is inching towards victory in the two of the three Lok Sabha seats. While BJP's B.Y. Raghavendra has won by a margin of 52,148 votes from the party bastion Shimoga, JD(S)'s L.R. Shivaramegowda has won from Mandya by more than 3 lakh votes. In Bellary, another BJP stronghold where the counting has entered its last phase, Congress's V.S. Ugrappa has ensured a victory with a lead of more than 2 lakh votes.
