Congress wins Bengaluru’s Jayanagar assembly seat

Bengaluru : The Congress on Wednesday won the Jayanagar assembly constituency in Bengaluru where elections were deferred last month following the death of BJP contestant BN Vijayakumar on May 4. Congress candidate Sowmya Reddy defeated BJP’s BN Prahlad.

The assembly elections were held across Karnataka on May 12.

Reddy won by a narrow margin of  2,889 votes after 16 rounds of counting. The victory gave Congress workers a chance to celebrate and indulge in burstling firecrackers.

The BJP nominated Kumar’s younger brother Prahlad as its candidate while Sowmya is the daughter of Congress leader and former Home Minister Ramalinga Reddy.

With wins in Rajarajeshwari Nagar in Bengaluru and now in Jayanagar, the Congress tally in the 225-member Assembly has gone up to 79.

Published on: Jun 13, 2018 at 12:29 IST

By EP Web Desk

(With Inputs From IANS)