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Congress wins Karnataka Lok Sabha bypoll
Wednesday March 21, 2012 01:03:47 PM,
IANS
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The Congress Wednesday wrested the Udupi-Chikmagalur Lok Sabha
seat in Karnataka from the scandal-hit ruling Bharatiya Janata
Party (BJP), adding to the woes of Chief Minister D.V. Sadananda
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Congress nominee K. Jayaprakash Hegde, who had lost to Gowda in
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over 45,000 votes in the bypoll held March 18.
He polled 398,723 votes to Kumar's 352,999. Janata Dal-Secular's
S.L. Bhoje Gowda was far behind with around 70,000 votes.
The bypoll followed Gowda vacating the seat after becoming chief
minister Aug 4 last year, succeeding his corruption-scarred party
colleague B.S. Yeddyurappa.
The defeat for the BJP comes as it battles dissent by a section of
the legislators led by Yeddyurappa, who wants to unseat Gowda.
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