Mysuru: The ruling Congress party has emerged victorious in the crucial assembly bypolls held in Nanjangud and Gundlupet constituencies on April 9.The stakes were quite high in this election for both the parties in the state which goes to assembly polls next year.
The Congress which gained an early lead over the BJP candidates managed to defeat its rival opponents by a big margin.
Congress party’s Kalale Keshavamurthy defeated BJP’s V Srinivas Prasad, a former Minister, in Nanjangud by a margin of 21,334 votes while Geetha Mahadev Prasad, wife of former Minister Mahadev Prasad, who was the Congress candidate in Gundlupet, beat her BJP rival Niranjan Kumar by 10,887 votes.