Udupi, March 21: BJP candidate V Sunil Kumar and JD(S) candidate S L Bhoje Gowda have accepted their defeat in the Udupi-Chikmagalur bypolls to the Lok Sabha.
Addressing the party workers at district BJP office in the city Mr Kumar said that the bypoll results were shocking and unexpected.
Thanking the party workers for campaigning him for nearly three weeks, he said that he considered the bypoll results as his personal defeat and not that of his party.
However, he said that he would continue to be with the people of the constituency eying and take the next assembly elections and general elections of 2014 as a challenge.
In a separate statement, Mr Gowda, who lost deposit, said that he was ready to accept the people's verdict.
He said that one of the main reasons for the poor performance of JD(S) in the bypoll was the propaganda of Congress, which warned the minorities, especially Muslims that split of secular votes would result in the victory of communal candidate.
Meanwhile, Udupi district unit president of JD(S) Deviprasad Shetty has resigned from his post owning moral responsibility for the defeat of his party's candidate.
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