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28-yr-old Tejasvi Surya defeats BK Hariprasad in Bengaluru South by 3.31 lakh margin

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May 23, 2019

Bengaluru, May 23: Tejasvi Surya, the Bharatiya Janata Party’s youngest candidate, won in the Bengaluru South constituency by a huge margin of 3,31,192 votes against Rajya Sabha MP and veteran Congress leader BK Hariprasad

With this the saffron party retained its bastion in Bengaluru. 28-year-old Tejasvi Surya secured 7,39,229 votes, while Billava stalwart BK Hariprasad won 4,08,037 votes.

The Bengaluru South seat has been considered a ‘safe seat’ for the BJP, as its voters had sent Union minister Ananth Kumar to the Lok Sabha six times. After his death last year, it was widely expected that his wife Tejaswini Ananth Kumar would be given the party’s ticket from the constituency.

The choice of Surya came as a surprise to many, including, it seems, the candidate himself, who posted a series of tweets that began with “OMG OMG!!! I can’t believe this”, after the news broke.

Surya, the general secretary of the BJP’s youth wing in Karnataka and part of its national social media campaign team for 2019, also got a lot of attention for many divisive, communal tweets that Twitter users dug out from his timeline.

In April, Surya got an injunction against 49 media outlets reporting anything that could be “defamatory” to him. The Karnataka high court later set aside this injunction.

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July 23,2020

Mandya, Jul 23: Upset over contracting Covid 19, a 55-year-old man, ended his life by hanging himself, at the designated Covid hospital, in Mandya, on Wednesday night.

The deceased patient is from Kandegala village, Malvalli taluk, Mandya district. He was ailing from renal problems and was under treatment. 

However, he contracted the virus and tested positive for Covid-19. Upset over this, he ended his life by hanging himself on the window grill, in the hospital bathroom, midnight. The incident came to light when other patients went to the toilet.

His last rites were conducted as per the designated Covid-19 protocol, on Thursday, said District Health Officer Dr H P Manchegowda.

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March 29,2020

Bengaluru, Mar 29: Seven new COVID-19 cases have been confirmed in Karnataka since Saturday 5 pm to 2 pm on Sunday.

The total number of positive cases in the state stands at 83, out of which five have been cured/discharged and three have lost their lives, according to the Karnataka Health Department.

A total of 979 confirmed cases of COVID-19 have been reported in India, informed the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on Sunday.

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March 29,2020

Mangaluru, Mar 29: The test report of the man from Uppoor in Udupi district, who committed suicide fearing he had contracted coronavirus infection, has returned negative for the virus.

Health department officials in Udupi said the post- mortem test report had shown that he did not have the virus infection and asked the people in the area not to panic.

Gopalakrishna Madivala (56), had hanged himself on Wednesday suspecting he had the disease, leaving a death note to family members asking them to stay safe.

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