Kar'NATAKA' Politics- Udupi-Chikmagalur LS bypoll

         BJP ruled Udupi province for last 17 years. After D.V Sadananda Gowda, Ruling party CM's resignation to the Udupi-Chikmagalur Loksabha seat, The atmosphere was electric that BJP are going to win the LS by-election with good margin as the seat was vacated by the existing CM of Karnataka. Even there were 4 out of 5 MLA's from Chikmagalur and even the same scenario was in Udupi as well. Then the count goes to 8 MLA's were from BJP out of 10 in Udupi-Chikmagalur constituency.
           
            BJP decided to place Sunil Kumar, who lost the Karkala assembly election against Gopal Bhandary as the CM's successor for the MP seat.
         
            Congress had kept faith in their loyalist and fielded Jayaprakash Hegde, who lost the last LS election in the same province against the existing CM Sadananda Gowda with just margin of 27,000 votes.
       
           JDS filed Boje Gowda to contest the bypoll and expected a decent fight with the top two National parties. They even told that people are expecting change and Uttar Pradesh Assembly election changed phase of the country by electing the regional party- Samajwadi Party.
           

             
              BJP candidate Sunil Kumar was basically a loyalist of Eshwarappa and Ananth Kumar. Frankly speaking, his home turf Karkala people themselves voted him out. I think BJP took a risk of fielding him  as the LS candidate for Bypoll. Sadananda Gowda also joined his hands with Eshwarappa at that time to cement his place as CM of Karnataka, where Yeddyurappa was giving him a threat to his place after his high court judgment stated that he's not guilty. Remember Yeddyurappa, himself crowned Sadananda Gowda as CM during his bad time to ignore Eshwarappa's loyalist Jagadish Shetter(At that time). But things are changed as of now, Jagadish Shetter is associated with Yeddyurappa's gang these days. That's all drama can be happen in so called KarNATAKA.

               In the mean time, BJP's internal rift went to the peak, where there was two parties within the party, that is of Yeddyurappa's loyalists and Eshwarappa's loyalists. Poor Sadananda Gowda ought to be associated with Eshwarappa to keep his CM post. He was not having any other option. Yeddyurappa was furious that he only made Sadananda Gowda as CM, but not game and his plans are really changed. So, He didnt even went close to campaign the crowd either in Udupi or Chikmagalur. He wasnt bothered about the results as his intention was to claim the top job again. That made BJP's reign of holding strong Udupi region collapsed in a bigger way.

                After the poll, Eshwarappa told the press conference that Sunil Kumar is going to win easily by 40,000 votes margin. But irony is Jayaprakash Hegde won the Loksabha election of Udupi-Chikmagalur region by more than 45,000 votes. JDS were out of reach. They were not even close to reach 1 lakh vote where as Congress got 3,98,723 votes, BJP ended their bad campaign with  3,52,999 and JDS managed to take as low as 72,000 votes and were out of race from the initial stage.

                   

              Finally, I can say BJP's internal rift caused the loyalists to vote against the party. The rift between Yeddyurappa and Eshwarappa-SadanandaGowda led the Congress victory. Even I must say that Jayaprakash Hegde's  'CLEAN IMAGE'  helped Congress a lot than Kannada actress Ramya's campaign.
Ramya is flying high that her first campaigning brought her glory. But More than Congress and Ramya, More than Congress idealism, Jayprakash Hegde's individualism,clean image and character got more votes and made him to work even better in the party.
             
I always love to see this kind of guy like Jayaprakash Hegde to get Central Minister post rather than Mallikarjun Kharge or Dharam Singh. He is more loyal and sincere than anyone else in the Congress party in Karnataka..

WELL DONE PEOPLE OF UDUPI-CHIKMAGALUR FOR ELECTING JAYAPRAKASH HEGDE
AS THE M.P. IT'S PEOPLE'S VICTORY!!!


Yours lovingly, 
       Raj