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Siddaramaiah wins from Varuna, becomes MLA for 9th time

Senior Congress leader and former chief minister Siddaramaiah got a landslide victory in the Varuna constituency on Saturday, defeating his nearest rival by a margin of 46,006 votes and entering the Karnataka Assembly for the ninth time. The 75-year-old leader got 1,19,430 votes against 73,424 polled by his BJP rival and influential Lingayat leader V […]

Senior Congress leader and former chief minister Siddaramaiah got a landslide victory in the Varuna constituency on Saturday, defeating his nearest rival by a margin of 46,006 votes and entering the Karnataka Assembly for the ninth time.

The 75-year-old leader got 1,19,430 votes against 73,424 polled by his BJP rival and influential Lingayat leader V Somanna. The Bahujan Samaj Party candidate was in third place with 1,075 votes, according to the Election Commission website.

Five-time MLA and outgoing state Housing Minister Somanna was moved out of his Govindaraj Nagar constituency in Bengaluru for the first time to take the Congress strongman head-on on his home turf. In 2018, Siddaramaiah left the Varuna seat for his son S Yathindra and went on to contest from Chamundeshwari and Badami. While he lost in Chamundeshwari to JD(S) candidate G T Deve Gowda, he defeated the BJP’s B Sriramulu by a slender margin of 1,996 votes in Badami.

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