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
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.
Most exit polls have given Congress an edge or a clear majority in the 224-member Karnataka Assembly elections even as some have predicted a hung House. Karnataka BJP spokesperson M G Mahesh, however, said 'the situation (of a hung Assembly) will not arise' as the BJP would bag enough seats.
Karnataka is heading for a hung assembly again with Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Congress being close contenders and HD Kumaraswamy s Janata Dal Secular likely to play kingmaker.