Shreyas Patel of Congress leads by over 43,000 votes

Hassan: Suspended JD(S) MP and Hassan NDA candidate Prajwal Revanna, who is in the dock for sleaze videos, lost the LS polls to Congress  candidate Shreyas Patel by over 43,000 votes, the counting of which was taken up  this morning.

Prajwal Revanna, the son of former Minister H.D. Revanna, who had fled the country soon after the voting on Apr. 26, had hit national headlines for all the wrong reasons. The State Congress Government had formed an SIT to probe the sexual abuse charges against Prajwal and  issued lookout notices after he went absconding.

However, Prajwal, who returned to India from Germany  in the early hours of May 31, was arrested by an all woman SIT team at KIAL,Bengaluru.

Now, Prajwal who had won the Hassan seat in 2019 LS polls, lost to Shreyas Patel of the Congress. The Congress won the seat, which is considered as a JD(S) stronghold,  after a gap of 25 years.

Soon as the counting of votes was taken up at 8 am, the seat witnessed a see-saw battle between Prajwal — grandson of former Prime Minister and JD(S) supremo H.D. Deve Gowda and Shreyas — grandson of former Hassan MP Puttaswamy Gowda, an arch political rival of H.D. Deve Gowda, who had won from the Congress nearly 30 years ago.