As the counting of votes progresses in Karnataka on Saturday, Bharatiya Janata Party s (BJP) candidate and Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai is leading in Shiggaon constituency by securing over 30,000 votes
With the counting of votes for Assembly elections beginning in Karnataka, it is a tight contest with BJP and Congress engaged in a neck-and-neck fight.
As counting progresses in the high-stakes Karnataka Assembly elections, all eyes are on senior Lingayat leaders Jagdish Shettar and Laxman Savadi, who defected from the BJP to the Congress after the saffron party denied them tickets.
With the Congress crossing halfway marking and moving towards absolute majority in Karnataka, the BJP state leadership has admitted the party s failure in the crucial assembly polls. “In spite of a lot of efforts put in by PM & BJP workers, we ve not been able to make the mark,” Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai told media-persons on Saturday.