Karnataka: Eshwarappa loses deposit

Expelled Karnataka BJP leader K S Eshwarappa came a cropper forfeiting his security deposit in Shimoga Lok Sabha constituency, where the party veteran B S Yediyurappa's son B Y Raghavendra retained the seat by a margin of more than two lakh votes over Congress candidate Geetha Shivarajkumar.

Eshwarappa, a former Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister who had also earlier served as the BJP's state unit president, secured 30,005 votes as against Raghavendra's 7,78,721. Geetha, who is the wife of Karnataka film star Shivarajkumar and daughter-in-law of Kannada thespian late Rajkumar, got 5,35,006 votes.