Chief Minister Siddaramaiah’s Congress party sweeps the Karnataka bypolls, winning both Bagalkot and Davanagere South seats, despite a close early challenge from the BJP in the latter. (Source: X/Siddaramaiah) After an initial scare in one of the seats, the Congress party on Monday won both the Karnataka Assembly seats which went to a bypoll on April 9. The Congress candidate from the Bagalkot constituency, Umesh Meti, won by a margin of 22,332 votes against BJP’s Veeranna Charantimath. In the Davanagere South constituency, after an initial scare, Congress party’s Samarth Mallikarjuna defeated BJP’s Shrinivasa Dasakariyappa with a close margin of 5708 votes. In Davanagere South, the BJP had secured a lead of over 5,000 votes in the first seven rounds of counting, but the results ultimately swung in favour of the Congress in the rest of the rounds. That Social Democratic Party of India candidate Afsar Kodlipete polled close to 19,000 votes here reflected the anger Congress faced among Muslim voters.…