Some stars shine, some fade away

For Sumalatha, actor and wife of ‘Mandyada Gandu’ Ambareesh, himself a three-time MP, controlled to do what used to be observed as an not possible job. She won in opposition to the combined strength of 2 events and the actor-son of the sitting Chief Minister. Three other namesakes of Sumalatha who were (allegedly) propped up by way of the JD(S) in combination bagged 20,563 seats (Sumalatha- Eight,902, M Sumalatha-Eight,542 and Sumalatha-3,119). Probably those would have even made a difference had the margin been any lesser.

Irony dies once more

The campaign used to be marred by way of name calling, casteist feedback, abuse and show of strength little in need of bodily violence. Producer Rockline Venkatesh, actors Darshan and Yash were active in Sumalatha’s campaign, which got here in handy for the supporters of JD(S) to dub it the ‘Naidu gang’ out to defeat the ‘Gowda’ Nikhil.

Curiously, Congress MLA and Rockline Venkatesh’s close relative Muniratna Naidu campaigned for Nikhil and even made a grandiose announcement that he'll now not release the movie ‘Muniratna Kurukshetra’ if Nikhil did not win. Ironically, Darshan plays the lead function within the movie.

CM Kumaraswamy spent days in Mandya shoring up strengthen for his son. Expecting the large onslaught, Sumalatha’s campaign used to be an appeal in contrast.

The first line in most of her speeches in villages used to be that she had no cash to supply. It used to be true, lots of her sales space managers labored totally free. The BJP did not have a big presence in Mandya but its open strengthen helped.

Prakash raj loses face

It used to be a disaster for actor Prakash Raj (Rai) in Bengalore Central, who known as the defeat “a solid slap on my face.” While the winner PC Mohan of the BJP scored over six lakh votes, runner up Rizwan Arshad of the Congress polled over 5 lakh votes. Prakash Raj used to be approach behind within the 3rd position with 28,822 votes (2.4 in step with cent of the votes polled), a decent quantity compared to most applicants who got here 3rd in other constituencies of Karnataka.

But it used to be a ways too little to save his deposit, for which he had to ranking round two lakh votes.

Uppi’s birthday celebration loses badly

Another movie character, Upendra, did not bother to comment on his birthday celebration’s efficiency. Uttama Prajaakeeya Party’s applicants polled between 560 (Manjunath H Rajappanavar in Belagavi) to a high of 9,276 (Hanur Nagaraju in Chamarajanagara). None of the birthday celebration’s applicants in Bengaluru, Melegatti Shridevi (B’luru Central) Santhosh M (B’luru North), and Ahoratra Natesha Polepalli (B’luru South) controlled to recover deposits.

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Assembly bypolls: BJP inches closer to forming government in Karnataka

The Congress-JD(S) coalition govt has come to a breaking point as they weren't simplest trounced squarely within the Lok Sahba polls, but also did not retain probably the most Assembly byelection seats. Congress won Kundagol Assembly seat the place its candidate Kusumavati wife of CS Shivalli defeated BJP’s Chikkanagoudra Siddanagouda Ishwaragouda by way of a margin of 1,611 votes.

In Chincholi the Congress did not retain the seat vacated by way of Umesh Jadhav. Here, Umesh’s son Avinash Jadhav of the BJP defeated Subash V Rathod by way of a margin of Eight,030 votes. With this, the full strength of the BJP within the Assembly has long gone upto 107, including strengthen of 2 unbiased MLAs, which is just six seats in need of a simple majority of 113 seats within the 224 Assembly seat. The Congress-JD(S) alliance strength is 117.