Karnataka elections: Congress corners BJP on party president Kharge’s home turf
The HinduIn a major setback to the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party in Kalaburagi district, the Opposition Congress successfully won seven out of nine Assembly seats, and the BJP slipped from the five seats it won in the last elections to two this election. Two leaders of the Congress, Priyank Kharge, son of AICC president M. Mallikarjun Kharge, and Ajay Singh, son of former Chief Minister the late N. Dharam Singh, secured a hat-trick of wins. Interestingly, two Lingayat leaders and sitting BJP MLAs, Dattatreya Patil Revoor and Rajkumar Patil Telkur, who were also appointed as chairman of KKRDB and KKRTC, respectively, lost. In Kalaburagi South, Mr. Revoor, who represented the seat in 2013 and 2018, was defeated by the Congress candidate Allamprabhu Patil by 21,048 votes.