Mandya: The Congress which was lying low in the sugar belt of Mandya district, has now risen like a Phoenix, winning 5 out of the total 7 seats, while the Sarvodya party candidate Darshan Puttannaiah, whom it had backed in Melukote Constituency, won. The JD(S) which had maintained a stranglehold in the district for nearly two decades, has just won one seat-K.R. Pet.
While the Congress won in Srirangapatna, Mandya, Maddur, Nagamangala and Malavalli (SC), the Sarovdaya party candidate backed by it in Melukote won, while the JD(S) succeeded in winning just one seat-K.R. Pet, which was held by K.C. Narayanagowda of the BJP, who was a Minister in the Basavaraj Bommai cabinet.
