Udupi, May 8: Congress candidate Pramod Madhwaraj defeated his nearest BJP candidate Sudhakar Shetty by margin of 39,524 votes and planted flag of victory for the Congress in Udupi constituency.
This is going to be a historic victory for the Congress because it is after 18 long years that the Congress is winning over Udupi constituency, despite the fact that it was once considered strong bastion of the Congress.
Repeated controversy surrounding Raghupathi Bhat of BJP, is said to be the sole reason for the defeat of the BJP. Such victories were witnessed by the Congress during the Udupi-Chikmagalur byelection last year and in the recent ULB polls. With this, Madhwaraj family demonstrated its their hold on politics in Udupi yet again. Pramodh's father Madhwaraj was a Mogaveera leader who won from Congress in 1962. Later Pramodh's mother Manorama Madhwaraj won four times from Congress in 1972, 1978, 1985 and 1989. After defecting to BJP, Manorama became an MP from BJP in 2004.
This is first victory taste for Pramod Madhwaraj. The first time he contested from Brahmavar with a Congress ticket against independent K Jayaprakash Hegde and lost. Even in 2008 it was the dame fate for Pramod against Raghupathi Bhat of BJP.
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