Mangaluru, Feb 23: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has swept the elections to the Dakshina Kannada Zilla Panchayat and three of the five taluk panchayats in the district.
The BJP retained power in Sullia, Puttur and Belthangady taluk panchayats but lost Mangalore and Bantwal taluk panchayats to Congress after five years.
In the 36-member zilla panchayat, the BJP has won 21 seats (it had bagged 24 in the 2011) and the Congress 15 seats (11 seats earlier). SDPI and CPI(M) failed to win any seats. More details are awaited.
DK ZP election results at a glance
| Party | BJP | Cong | JD(S) | SDPI | Others |
| 2005 | 15 | 15 | 05 | 00 | |
| 2011 | 24 | 11 | 00 | 00 | 00 |
| 2016 | 21 | 15 | 00 | 00 | 00 |
| Gain/Loss |
DK's 5 TP results at a glance
| TP | Total | BJP | Cong | JD(S) | SDPI | Others |
| Mangaluru | 39 | 19 | 20 | 00 | 00 | 00 |
| Puttur | 24 | 16 | 8 | 00 | 00 | 00 |
| Bantwal | 34 | 12 | 22 | 00 | 00 | 00 |
| Belthangady | 26 | 14 | 12 | 00 | 00 | 00 |
| Sullia | 13 | 9 | 4 | 00 | 00 | 00 |
| Total |
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DK ZP Constituency |
Winners |
|
Kinnigoli |
Vinod Kumar Bollur (BJP) |
|
Puthige |
Sucharita Shetty (BJP) |
|
Shirthadi |
Sujatha KP (BJP) |
|
Kateel |
Kasturi Panja (BJP) |
|
Bajpe |
Vasanti (BJP) |
|
Yedapadav |
Janardhana Gowda (BJP) |
|
Gurupura |
UP Ibrahim (Cong) |
|
Neermarga |
Seema Melwin D'Souza (Cong) |
|
Konaje |
Rasheeda Banu (Cong) |
|
Someshwar |
Dhanalakshmi (BJP) |
|
Sangabettu |
Tungappa Bangera (BJP) |
|
Sarapady |
B Padmashekar Jain (Cong) |
|
Pudu |
Ravindra Kambali (BJP) |
|
Golthamajalu |
Kamalakshi K. Poojary |
|
Maani |
Manjula Madhava Maave |
|
Kolnadu |
MS Mohammed (Cong) |
|
Kurnadu |
Mamatha D.S. Gatti |
|
Sajipa Munnooru |
Chandra Prakash Shetty (Cong) |
|
Punacha |
Jayashree Kodanduru (BJP) |
|
Naaravi |
P. Dharanendra Kumar |
|
Aaladangadi |
Shekhara Kukkedi |
|
Laaila |
Soumyalatha Jayantha Gowda |
|
Ujire |
Namitha K (Cong) |
|
Dharmasthala |
Koragappa Naik (BJP) |
Hubballi, Jan 28: Charting that the Bharatiya Janata party’s Central leaders have not given a free-hand to the Chief minister B S Yediyurappa on the issue of expansion of Cabinet, former Chief minister and the Congress leader Siddaramaiah had opined that 'it has hampered the State’s development'.
Comments
RSS CHADDI GOONDAGALIGE DIKKARA.....
BJP politicians cheated. its should be clean victory for congress.
good coverage CD well done
three prominent ministers are there in DK. Still Cong lost!
BJP has won riots effected Muzaffar Nagar seat so don't be surprised if there will be riots all over UP before the up coming elections.
BJP led NDA won 7 out 12 seats across the country in by election so ppl are with Modiji
Appreciate your efforts, but the malaise is very deep. Shutting JNU temporarily won't hurt the Nation. Let's Clean Up JNU at least, Jai BJP
dingchika dingchika dingchika congress rahul beta jau ma ke pass :(. bjp jai ho.
All feku :( :(
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