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The Hindu
The Hindu
National
Jahnavi T. R.

In Bengaluru, maintaining victory margins is a task for MLAs

Senior leader of the Congress Dinesh Gundu Rao secured a narrow victory this time against the Bharatiya Janata Party’s Sapthagiri Gowda in Gandhinagar constituency, the margin a mere 105 votes.

In Jayanagar, C.K. Ramamurthy of the BJP, after a dramatic turn of events, beat the Congress’ Sowmya Reddy by just 16 votes, and it is a controversy still raging. 

Mr. Rao won by a fairly larger margin of 22,607 votes in 2013. Eventually, the margin came down to a little over 10,000 in 2018. According to Mr. Gowda, the eventual catching up of the anti-incumbency wave was what led to the narrow victory margin in the constituency.

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