BJP bags 10 seats in byelections, retains majority in assembly

BENGALURU: The ruling BJP bagged 10 seats and was leading in two others out of 15 constituencies that went for assembly bypolls last week, helping the BS Yediyurappa government hold on to power.
The Congress, which won 12 of those 15 seats in the 2018 assembly polls, won only in two segments – Hunasuru and Shivajinagar, while its former ally the JD(S) trailed in all the 12 seats it had contested.
JD(S) had won in three – KR Pete, Mahalakshmi Layout and Hunsur – out of these 15 constituencies in the 2018 assembly polls.
Independent candidate Sharath Bachegowda, who was earlier expelled from BJP for anti-party activities after he contested the bypoll as a rebel, was heading for a win in Hoskote.
The 10 BJP candidates who won are: Arabail Shivaram Hebbar (Yellapura), Narayana Gowda (KR Pete), BC Patil (Hirekerur), Shrimant Patil (Kagwad), Mahesh Kumthalli (Athani), K Sudhakar (Chikkaballapura), K Gopalaiah (Mahalakshmi Layout), Anand Singh (Vijayanagara), Ramesh Jarkiholi (Gokak), and Arun Kumar Guttur (Ranebennur).
BJP candidates who are leading are ST Somashekar (Yeshwanthpura) and Byrathi Basavaraj (K R Puram).
Congress candidates who won are Rizwan Arshad (Shivajinagar) and HP Manjunath (Hunasureu).
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