Union Minister and Bhartiya Janata Party candidate from Dharwad, Pralhad Joshi casts his vote at polling booth number 111 in Hubballi, Dharwad and said that the party will win 14 out of 14 seats in the state.
On being asked about the number of seats that the party will win, Joshi said, ‘We will win 14 out of 14 seats (in the state)’. Meanwhile, Pralhad Joshi also spoke about the obscene videos case involving JD(S) MP Prajwal Revanna and said, ‘It is a very serious case. We urge the state government because they have failed in arresting him. Even though the clipping came out well in advance, they waited for Gowda Belt to vote and after that they allowed him to go outside. Had they filed the FIR and informed the Central Government, we would have detained him. But they did not do it’.
Congress has fielded Vinod Asooti, who will be contesting for the first time in the Lok Sabha elections from the Dharwad Lok Sabha constituency. From 1980 to 1996, the Dharwad seat was a Congress stronghold but BJP’s Vijay Sankeshwar won the seat in 1996 and broke the Congress’ winning streak.
Since then, the BJP has retained the seat. In the 2019 Lok Sabha election, BJP’s Prahlad Joshi received 6,84,837 votes (56.4 %) while the Congress candidate Vinay Kulkarni came second with 4,79,765 votes (39.5 %). BSPs Irappa Bharamappa Madar 6,344 votes (0.5 %).
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