Sai Kumar lost his deposit from the constituency

Actor Sai Kumar, who contested on a BJP candidate from the Bagepalli Assembly constituency in the May 12 Karnataka elections, was badly defeated.

Sai Kumar lost his de-posit from the constit-uency where a majority of voters are Telugus. The Bagepalli constituency is located on the Andhra border, and the actor, who features in Telugu and Kannada films, had hoped that he would supportIn the event, he finished fourth, and lost his deposit Sai Kumar had previously contested from the same constituency in 2008 on a BJP ticket and was defeated by the Congress’s Subba Reddy.This time too, Sai Kumar was defeated by Mr Subba Reddy, the incumbent MLA.

The influence of the Gali Janardhan Reddy team that is said to hold swa in the region also not help Sai Kumar. Sai Kumar was confident that he would win from Bagepally as he thought that there would be a BJP wave.