Old Mysuru pumps oxygen into JDS, giving the regional party hopes it badly needed
JDS state president HD Kumaraswamy and Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) president DK Shivakumar had been locked in an intense battle over the past 18 months to prove their popularity in the Vokkaliga heartland of Old Mysuru region. This only intensified after the Congress won in the assembly polls last year, leaving the regional party deeply wounded.
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The April 26 vote has infused oxygen into the JDS, , while redeeming the 64-year-old former CM's sway over the community votes across the 11 districts in the Old Mysuru region. Of them, the ruling Congress has been able to win only two seats, Hassan and Chamarajanagar. The rest have gone to the BJP-JDS combine.
The JDS and ex-PM HD Deve Gowda’s family, in fact, have together got three seats including the Bengaluru Rural won by cardiologist Dr CN Manjunath who contested on a BJP ticket. He defeated Shivakumar’s younger brother DK Suresh in a seat some people believed the DK brothers had an iron grip on. Three-time MP Suresh’s fame soared after he emerged the only Congress winner in the 2019 general election.
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