Mangalore, May 8, 2013: BJP has suffered another major setback in the prestigious Mangalore North constituency. Here its two time MLA and former minister Krishna J Palemar has lost to Moidin Bava of Congress by a margin of 2420 votes. In fact Bava had lost the previous elections to Palemar by a margin of 16000 votes.
It may be recalled here that the selection of Bava as the Congress candidate from Mangalore North had almost sparked a rebellion within the Congress owing to resentment in the faction of another ticket aspirant and former MLA Vijaykumar Shetty. However, things settled down very soon with Shetty stating that he would respect the party decision.