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CM DK Shivkumar
Bengaluru: Political activity in the state suddenly heated up in all parties,With karnataka,tomorrow,is going to elect Seven Legislative Council members(MLCs).Eight candidates are contesting for the Seven vacancies.Including Five from COngress,Two from the BJP and One from Janata Dal(secular).
As per the current strength,there are total of 222 legislators,of which Congress has 135,BJP has 62 and JD(S) has 18 votes.A candidate needs 28 votes to win, and Congress can easily with Four seats.However,Since Shivakumar has made it a prestige issue by fielding Vinay Karthik as the Fifth candidate.
This has resulted in hectic political management in the congress camp.The Congress MLAs were shifted to a resort on the outskirts of Bengalore ahead of june 18th election.
The Congress aims to eleiminate the risk of cross-voting while seeking to secure Five of the Seven seats at stake.
A meeting of the Congress Legislature party (CLP),presided over by the Chief Minister was held with enough instructions and guidelines to each MLA, including first and second preferential votes. Party general secretary incharge of Karnataka Randeep surjewala,former CM Siddaramaiah, KPCC president B K Hariprasad and others seniors were also present.
Since there is going to be a fierce struggle for additional votes, Sources said, that Congress is hopeful of getting one vote from Darshan Puttannaiah, it is still short of Four votes. For this, the Congress is counting on the votes of shivaram Hebbar and ST Somashekar, who have been expelled from BJP.
On the other hand, BJP would comfortably win Two Council seats with few spare votes. It is the JD(S) with only 18 members,will have a tough task in retaining its flock as well as getting additional votes.
