BJP wins Gulbarga seat after 20 years as Congress' Kharge loses

Leader of Opposition for Congress in Lok Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge has lost the Gulbarga seat in Karnataka to Umesh Jadhav, a rebel Congress leader who joined BJP, by 95,452 votes. Kharge, 76, had a track record of 11 straight wins, nine times for Assembly and twice in Lok Sabha. The BJP had won the Gulbarga seat only once in 1998.