Udupi: Shobha Karandlaje wins by margin of 1.42 lacs votes

Bellevision Media Network

Udupi, 16 May 2014: Shobha Karandlaje from Bharatiya Janata Party won the Lok Sabha Elections 2014 in the Udupi-Chikmagalur Parliamentary Constituency with a huge margin. She defeated heavyweights such as K.Jayaprakash Hegde ( Indian National Congress), V.Dhananjay Kumar, Janata Dal (Secular) candidates. The other candidates she defeated included Zakir Hussain (Bahujan Samaj Party), S.Vijaykumar (Communist Party of India), Gurudev SH (Aam Aadmi Party), Comrade C.J Jagannath (Communist Party of India (Marxist-Lenninist) Red Star), M.D.Mainuddin Khan Alias Asfiya (Independent), Manjunath G. (Independent), Srinivas Poojary (Independent) and Sudheer Kanchan (Independent).

 

 

It maybe recalled that few days Karandlaje had also asked her party workers to gear up for victory rally as though she had foreseen the victory. Though Karandlaje was strong contender her victory against Jayaprakash Hegde looked difficult.