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'Defeated by fraud in 1991': Siddaramaiah recalls in 2025

Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah said has said that he lost the Lok Sabha election 34 years ago because of 'fraud'. In 1991 Lok Sabha election Siddaramaiah was the Janata Dal Secular candidate from Koppal in Karnataka. He was up against the incumbent, Basavaraj Patil Anwari, who won the seat in the 1989 election on a JDS ticket and then jumped to the Congress for the 1991 poll. Anwari got 2.41 lakh votes and a victory margin of less than 11,200. Siddaramaiah later filed a case in the Karnataka High Court questioning the counting officials' decision to reject 22,243 votes. He claimed he would have won a majority of those votes. The now-Congress leader also claimed Anwari's candidature was illegal because he had been disqualified from the earlier Lok Sabha by the Speaker on grounds of defection. That, he argued, meant Basavaraj Anwari was "permanently disqualified" from membership of the Lower House. BJP leader Amit Malviya alleged, "This video is proof - the same man who once fought against Congress' 'vote chori' is today their Chief Minister and is leading a 'Vote Adhikar' rally. The irony is so thick... it is not lost on the people of Bharat."

The BJP's R Ashoka, the Leader of the Opposition in the Karnataka Assembly, accused the Congress of having "deceitfully defeated" Siddaramaiah and also dug out another, potentially damaging, statement, this time by former Congress leader CM Ibrahim. Now with the JDS, he had accused the Congress of having 'bought' 3,000 votes for the 2018 Assembly election. The votes, he alleged, were from the Badami seat that Siddaramaiah won.

(State Correspondent)


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