Summary:
Both are two-term MLAs, who won in both 2004 Assembly polls and the successive 2008 Assembly polls. Mr.
Bhat and Mr.
Madhwaraj were classmates in school. After a quite a long wait, the third list announced by the BJP has cleared the candidates for the prestigious Udupi Assembly constituency and Kaup Assembly constituency in the district. Mr.
Bhat had defeated Mr.
Madhwaraj in the 2008 Assembly elections by a margin of 2,479 votes. But the wait had no surprises as the BJP has given its ticket for Udupi constituency to K.
Raghupati Bhat and for the Kaup Constituency to Lalji Mendon..