Key Points
Yediyurappas bastion, Shikaripura is the sole Assembly constituency in the state where the BJP has won consistently losing only twice since 1983, when the party contested the Karnataka Assembly election for the first time after its founding...
The second time was in 2013, when the BJP performed miserably after Yediyurappa had floated a new outfit, Karnataka Jantha Paksha (KJP), after parting ways with the BJP...
Shikaripura was one of the 18 seats the BJP won in its maiden Karnataka elections, with Yediyurappa getting as many as 64.2% of the votes to defeat the Congresss K Yenkatappa..
For the BJP too, the 2008 Assembly elections brought rich dividends a cache of 110 seats, and a chance to form the government in the state for the first time, with Yediyurappa at the helm...
One of the six seats the KJP won was Shikaripura, where Yediyurappa defeated the Congresss H S Shanthaveerappa Gowda (Shantanna) by 24,425 votes..
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