Mithun Rai loses to Umanatha Kotian from Moodibidri constituency
Umanatha Kotian, the BJP candidate from Moodbidri constituency, has won the seat for the second time in a row in the Karnataka Assembly Elections 2023, defeating Mithun Rai of the Congress party.
Kotian secured 85,858 votes, while his nearest rival Mithun Rai of the Congress party secured 63,575 votes. The BJP candidate thanked the voters of his constituency for their support and said he would work towards fulfilling their expectations.
In the previous assembly elections in 2018, Kotian had defeated Abhayachandra Jain of the Congress party. Kotian's victory this time marks his second consecutive victory. Mithun Rai, who was a young and influential Congress leader was the DK District Youth Congress President and also the general secretary of KPCC. He had contested as a Congress candidate from the Dakshina Kannada district in the last Lok Sabha elections.
In the Moodbidri constituency, the BJP has a strong presence, and Umanatha Kotian has been able to establish himself as a popular leader.
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Maharashtra polls: Rahul Gandhi's bag checked, Congress leader questions authorities
Amravati(PTI): Poll authorities on Saturday checked the bag of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi at Dhamangaon Railway in Maharashtra's Amravati district.
He was here to address a public rally for the November 20 assembly polls.
Gandhi's bag was checked after his helicopter landed at the helipad in Dhamangaon Railway, which is among the eight assembly seats in Amravati district.
Former state minister and Congress' Teosa MLA Yashomati Thakur, speaking to reporters, questioned the action of the poll authorities and asked why they were not checking bags of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah or Chief Minister Eknath Shinde.
The checking of bags of leaders, a practice of the poll authorities to enforce the model code of conduct, came to the fore in the state's election campaign after Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Uddhav Thackeray was subjected to it in Yavatmal.
Thackeray not only shot a video of the procedure but also chided the poll authorities on not checking bags of Modi, Shah, Shinde and Deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis.
However, videos that surfaced subsequently showed bags of Shah, Shinde, Fadnavis, Ajit Pawar etc being checked by poll authorities.
