mysuru bjp which was pinning hopes to increase its tally in the assembly has been decimated in the mysuru region of five districts it was able to retain only one seat in mysuru city but lost seven other constituenciestheir primary goal was to make inroads into congress and jds bastions in the southern districts the partys national leadership had upped the ante with both prime minister narendra modi and union home minister amit shah focusing on mysuru chamarajanagar mandya and hassan districts by holding roadshows and public meetingsshah had sounded the poll bugle from mandya four months ahead of the elections by holding a public meeting and also held a similar meeting in varuna assembly in mysuru in hassans alur taluk which was part of sakleshpur constituency he held roadshows and another at gundlupet in chamarajanagar modis fourkm long roadshow in mysuru city and a public meeting in hassans belur and nanjangud in mysuru has failed to impress votersformer chief minister siddaramaiah ridiculed the bjp leadership saying people of karnataka wont give votes by only seeing the faces of their national leadersbjp suffered heavy blow by losing both kodagu seats madikeri and virajpet which was their stranglehold in the last two decades bjp had won both seats in the previous four elections since 2004 and this time both the seats were secured by congress fourtime legislator kg bopaiah and threetime mla appachu ranjan lost by a thin margin of 4291 and 4402 votes respectivelybjp had failed to retain five other seats gundlupet in chamarajanagar district chamaraja and nanjangud screserve in mysuru kr pet in mandya and hassan segment in hassan district in chamaraja and hassan segments bjp suffered loss by a margin of 4094 and 7854 votes respectively in gundlupet and nanjangud the margin of loss was 36675 votes and 47607 votes whereas in kr pet which bjp had won in 2019 byelection the party slipped to third place with 38151 voteskrishnaraja win brings solace for bjp the victory in krishnaraja has given some relief to the party bjp had replaced fourtime mla sa ramadas and fielded one of its grassrootslevel party workers ts srivathsa which helped it to beat the antiincumbency and retained the seat srivathsa told toi victory in krishnaraja has proved that the party can ensure success even to the grassroots worker like me in the assembly election he attributed his success to workers he won against congress mk somashekar a former mla by a margin of 7213 votes