Latest trends show that Congress has won the Bangalore City MLC seat and is leading in 13 other seats.
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Bengaluru, The ruling Congress led in 13 of the 25 Karnataka legislative council seats for which elections were held and counting of votes was in progress on Wednesday. Congress is lacking numbers in the 75-member Council because of which it has often faced piquant situations with BJP and JDS joining hands on certain issues. The elections saw a free flow of allurements -smartphones, tablets, and costly Kancheevaram saris, besides cash -from the parties to the voters (members of municipal and panchayat bodies).The parties cited the lack of any ceiling on expenditure to justify their largesse. Chairman DH Shankaramurthy is a BJP member.
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The BJP suffers a tremendous blow in Chhattisgarh civic polls, out of 11 urban bodies the party could only managed to win three. The BJP lost to the Congress in ex-CM and BJP V-P BS Yeddyurappa’s bastion of Shivamogga, reportedly due to infighting among senior leaders there. The former, a BJP national vicepresident, was looking to make a comeback to Karnataka politics after the council polls. Jagtap was facing a stiff challenge from former NCP leader and Independent candidate Prasad Lad, amid reports that a faction of about 20 Congress corporators and a few BJP corporators cross-voted. Congress has humbled JD(S) in Deve Gowda’s political turf Hassan, which has come as a shocker for the party. Chief Minister Siddaramaiah described the victory as a mandate for the Congress.
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Despite repeated requests by the party, he had refused to withdraw from the fray. Congress rebels Dayanand Reddy (Bengaluru Urban), K Jayaprakash He gde and Harikrishna Bantwal (Dakshina Kannada) didn’t make any impact.
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The two independents won from Belgaum-1 and Bijapur-1, from where former BJP Union minister Basangouda R. Patil (Yatnal) contested.
