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Congress stalwarts make exit greenhorns in the Lok Sabha elections in Karnataka

Bengaluru, May 24 (UNI) Two Congress stalwarts in Karnataka, including Congress group leader in the 17th Lok Sabha, Mallikarjuna Kharge and former Union minister K H Muniyappa, who never lost any elections in their career, succumbed to the BJP opponents, who were first timers in seeking entry to the Lok Sabha.
Mallikarjuna Kharge, had never lost any elections since his debut to the politics in 1972 and won as many as 11 elections to the Karnataka Assembly and two times for the Lok Sabha, before tasting the first electoral defeat on May 23 from Kalaburagi Lok Sabha seat.
The Congress leader, met his Waterloo at the hands of Umesh Jadhav, a former Congress MLA, and changed colours to the saffron Saffron party, ahead of the Lok Sabha elections by a margin of over one lakh votes.
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