Will analyse reasons for Congress’ bypoll defeat, says Shivakumar
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State Congress president D.K. Shivakumar mentioned on Tuesday that the social gathering wouldn’t query the peoples’ verdict in Sira and Rajarajeshwarinagar, however expressed shock on the variety of votes secured by the BJP in each constituencies.
“We are accepting the verdict given by the people and will hold discussions in the coming days to identify the reasons for our defeat,” he informed reporters.
Mr. Shivakumar mentioned the social gathering had anticipated a detailed battle in R.R. Nagar and was assured of victory in Sira. “We expected a close fight of around 10,000 votes in R.R. Nagar,” he mentioned. He, nonetheless, added that bypoll outcomes typically go in favour of the ruling authorities within the State.
Leader of the Opposition Siddaramaiah analysed the defeat in a sequence of tweets. On the Congress’ defeat in Sira, he mentioned candidate T.B. Jayachandra had ensured stream of river water to assist folks construct their livelihood, however the BJP “ensured flow of money to influence elections”.
On the victory of the BJP’s Munirathna in R.R. Nagar, he mentioned Mr. Munirathna had began making ready for the byelections from the day he defected from the Congress. “But our candidate was selected just before the elections. Munirathna got a lot of time to prepare and this also may have helped him,” the previous Chief Minister mentioned.
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