Ballari By Election  

Former Prime Minister HD Deve Gowda, former chief minister Veerappa Moily, 10-time MLA and 2-time MP Mallikajuna Kharge, 7-time MLA KH Muniyappa and Ballari by-election hero VS Ugrappa tasted defeat in the hands of BJP opponents this Lok Sabha election in Karnataka
 

When Sriramulu was a BJP MP, he was seen wishing people of Ballari in Karnataka during Tipu Jayanti. He changed his stand subsequently. He took no clear position on the Lingayat issue. Besides MLA Sriramulu's ideological confusion, the party's Ballari candidate J Shantha might have lost the by-election also because some party leaders in other parts of Karnataka were equally listless.
 

BJP has distanced itself from party's former minister Janardhan Reddy. We have nothing to do with Janardhan Reddy. He is not a BJP man anymore. So the party has nothing to say anything about him, said BJP spokesperson Prakash.  

Ballari deputy commissioner Ramprasad Manohar along with his family turned up at the polling booth early morning to cast his vote.