Divya Hegde, daughter of victorious Congress candidate K. Jayaprakash Hegde, was delighted at her father's victory on Wednesday.
“I am very happy at my father's victory so are my mother and brother. My father is a secular and progressive person. I am proud of the fact that my father's sincerity has been rewarded,” Ms. Hegde, who studied M.S. in Marketing and Communications at North Western University, Chicago, U.S., and runs a firm in Bangalore.
Ms. Hegde was always seen in the Congress Bhavan in Udupi after the Congress declared Mr. Hegde's candidature for Udupi-Chikmagalur constituency. Ms. Hegde said that her father's victory had been possible only because of the hard work by party workers.
Even after two successive defeats – in 2008 Assembly election from Kundapur constituency and 2009 from Udupi-Chikmagalur Lok Sabha constituency, her father retained touch with the people of Udupi-Chikmagalur constituency and worked for them. “This has had been rewarded by the people,” she said. Ms. Hegde said that it was essential to strengthen the Congress in the coastal region. “He should build the cadre and organisation of the Congress in this region. He should strengthen the Congress,” she said.
She said that politics had internal and external dimensions. Politics called for hard work. Her father would do all he could for the development of the constituency and for the party, Ms. Hegde said.
