Narayana Gowda, who emerged victorious, was one of 17 MLAs of the erstwhile JD(S)-Cong coalition who resigned from his post, to make way for the BJP to form a government.
PTI
In what was an unprecedented victory for the BJP, former JD(S) MLA KC Narayana Gowda has emerged victorious from the KR Pet Assembly seat in Mandya district. He pipped the JD(S) candidate BL Devaraj by a margin of more than 9,000 votes. He is one of the 17 MLAs of the erstwhile JD(S)-Congress ruling coalition who resigned from his post to make way for the BJP to form government in the state. Incidentally, this is the same taluk from where Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa hails. However, until now, the BJP which isconsidered to be favoured by LIngayats, had failed to make significant inroads in the Vokkaliga-dominated old Mysuru region. The highest votes recorded by BJP candidates have not even touched 30,000 in the last many Assembly polls. During the 2018 Assembly elections, BJP candidate BC Manju had won only 9,819 votes. Taking special interest in ensuring BJP's victory in KR Pete under which his birthplace Bookanakere comes, Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa had deputed his son BY Vijayendra to oversee the election-related activities in the constituency. "It gives me an immense pleasure that Narayana Gowda has won from KR Pete. It is the same place where my village Bookanakere is located and where I was born, but we had never won the election. I congratulate him," Yediyurappa told reporters. Celebrating Gowda's victory, BJP state chief Nalin Kumar Kateel said, "In certain regions such as KR Pete and Chikkaballapura, BJP had never won the election. Mandya had been the JD(S) citadel, but today he (Narayana Gowda) has brought us victory from there". In the 2018 Assembly elections, the JD(S) had won all the eight assembly segments in Mandya district with a substantial population of the dominant Vokkaliga community. (With PTI inputs).
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