Bengaluru: The curtain is almost down on Nanjangud and Gundlupet assembly by-polls with voting coming to an end on Sunday. However, even as the poll results are awaited, the Intelligence report sent to the state government concludes that both- the Congress and the BJP, which are the main players in the by-polls will take home their share with one Assembly seat each falling into their kitty.
The report hints that it may be difficult for ruling Congress to retain Nanjangud, but it may win in Gundlupet with a comfortable margin.
This means, Dalit strongman V Srinivas Prasad, the BJP candidate and Congress rebel will taste victory in Nanjangud. However, the report states that his victory may be with a slender margin.
“Dalits and Lingayats have voted in favor of the BJP in this constituency contributing to Prasad’s victory,” sources said.
Prasad who had won this constituency as a Congress candidate in 2013 assembly election quit party in 2016 after he was unceremoniously sacked from the state cabinet, disturbing the equation between one time close friends-Siddaramaiah and Srinivas Prasad.
According to the report, in Gundlupet, the victory for the Congress is going to be a cake walk with massive voting from Lingayat and OBC voters. Geetha Mahadevaprasad, wife of sitting MLA Mahadevaprasad of Gundlupet was fielded by the Congress after untimely death of the latter.
