Ramanagara Assembly election 2023: Nikhil Kumaraswamy in battle to retain family bastion

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The Deve Gowda family`s grand plan of launching Nikhil Kumaraswamy in politics had failed in 2019, when he was defeated by actress-turned-politician Sumalatha Ambareesh by a huge margin of 1.25 lakh votes in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections from Mandya...

Ramanagara, which comes under the Bangalore Rural Lok Sabha constituency, is witnessing Nikhil Kumaraswamy from the Janata Dal (Secular) contest against Iqbal Hussain HA from the Indian National Congress (INC) and Goutham Gowda from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)...

In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, DK Suresh from the Congress party won the seat from the Bangalore Rural Lok Sabha (MP), and that too with 2,0,6870 votes by beating Bharatiya Janata Party member Ashwathnarayangowda...

In 1994, former Prime Minister and veteran JD(S) leader HD Deve Gowda won the seat by a huge margin and the constituency propelled him to become the Chief Minister of Karnataka..

Nikhil Kumaraswamy, grandson of Deve Gowda, and son of former Karnataka Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy, is contesting from the safest possible seat..

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