Janata Dal (Secular) MP Prajwal Revanna, who is in police custody in connection with sexual abuse and rape case, is leading from Hassan Lok Sabha seat in Karnataka.
Lok Sabha election 2024 voting in Hassan was held in the second of seven phase polling on April 26.
As per the early trends of Lok Sabha election result shared by the Election Commission of India, Revanna was leading by 5,201 votes.
The 33-year-old lawmaker’s closest rival was Congress’ Shreyas M Patel, grandson of the late G Puttaswamy Gowda, so far has managed to bag 1,90,337 votes.
Hassan Lok Sabha constituency recorded a vote turnout of 77.42 per cent in this election, highest after 2009 when it saw a voter turnout of 73.47 per cent.
The Hassan seat was represented by former prime minister Deve Gowda in the lower house for three consecutive terms from 2004 to 2019. However, in the 2019 general elections, he fielded his grandson Revanna who bagged a vote share of 52.96 per cent and defeated his nearest rival and BJP leader Manju A by a margin of 11.06 per cent.
Revanna, who is in police custody till June 6, had allegedly fled from the country soon after the polling was held in his constituency. He was charged with rape and sexual assault after pen drives containing videos of him with different women surfaced and soon went viral in Hassan.
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