G. Janardhan Reddy’s Disqualification Revoked Following Telangana High Court Suspension of Conviction
BENGALURU:
In a classic case of when two fight, the third wins, in Ballari city, Congress candidate Nara Bharath Reddy won while Janardhana Reddys wife Aruna Lakshmi KRPP and his estranged brother G Somasekhara Reddy lost.
Former mining baron and ex-minister G Janardhana Reddy who had a few months ago floated his party — Kalyana Rajya Pragathi Paksha (KRPP) — won in Gangavathi while his wife, and two brothers who fought on BJP ticket lost in the Karnataka Assembly elections for which the results were announced on Saturday. In a classic case of ‘when two fight, the third wins’, in Ballari city, Congress candidate Nara Bharath Reddy won while Janardhana Reddy’s wife Aruna Lakshmi (KRPP) and his estranged brother G Somasekhara Reddy lost. While Bharath Reddy got 80,744 votes, Lakshmi Aruna bagged 46,171 votes and Somasekhara Reddy secured 35,491 votes.
In Harapanahalli, independent candidate M P Latha Mallikarjun defeated Janardhana Reddy’s another brother G Karunakara Reddy (BJP) with a margin of 13,845 votes.
It is alleged that the KRPP backed Latha Mallikarjun, who is former deputy chief minister late M P Prakash’s daughter.
Transport Minister B Sriramulu and his nephew T H Suresh Babu who were once the close confidants of Janardhana Reddy also lost the elections.
While Sriramulu faced the defeat at the hands of Congress candidate B Nagendra in Ballari, Suresh Babu was humbled by J N Ganesh in Kampli.PTI
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