Shivajinagar is a Legislative Assembly Constituency in the Bengaluru Urban District of Karnataka. The 2019 Bypoll candidates are Rizwan Arshad - Congress, Saravana - BJP, Tanveer Ahmed - JD(S). Counting of votes is underway.
Karnataka by-polls brought good news for the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) as the BS Yeddyurappa-led government has held on to the small majority it had in Karnataka. 12 out of the 15 seats that went to polls in the Karnataka by-elections, went the way of the BJP, taking their overall count to (105 + 12) 117, 5 more than the halfway mark. The by-polls were necessitated by the disqualification of 17 MLAs of the Congress and the JDS.
"For me, Ram and Raheem are the same. I prayed to Saibaba for the betterment and development of the country," Deve Gowda told reporters in Shirdi in Ahmednagar district.
The ruling party has 105 members, including the Speaker and support of Independent H. Nagesh, who is the excise minister in the over four month old Yediyurappa government since it returned to power on July 26 after the fall of the 14-month JD-S-Congress coalition government on July 23.
After a slow pace in the first half of the day since polling began at 7 am with only 33 per cent till 1.30 pm, voting picked up later in the day though it was below the percentage recorded in the assembly elections in 2018.
The Election Commission and police have made elaborate arrangements for the smooth conduct of the bypolls in all the 15 constituencies in Karnataka. Out of a total 42,509 personnel deployed for election management, 19,299 are polling personnel.
Cumulatively, the surveillance teams have so far seized cash worth Rs 5.7 crore, vehicles worth Rs 3.5 lakh, sarees and blouses worth Rs 30.8 lakh and party accessories worth Rs 27,000.
The byelections are being held to fill the vacancies caused by the disqualification of 17 rebel Congress and JDS MLAs, whose rebellion led to the collapse of the H D Kumaraswamy-led coalition government in July and paved the way for the BJP to come to power.
The raids at the residence of Congress' KB Koliwad come in the run-up to assembly bypolls in 15 segments in Karnataka following the disqualification of the MLAs from Congress and the JD(S) which led to the toppling of the coalition government and installation of the BJP government led by Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa.
The state excise department has seized 435 litres of IML and other liquors worth Rs 1,21,538 and booked six heinous cases, one case for Breach of Licence conditions and 51 cases in the last 24 hours. Cumulatively, 224901 litres of IML and other liquor worth Rs 4,68,37,794.
"The 248 candidates have filed 353 nominations by November 18 evening, which was the last date for submitting the papers to contest in the by-elections across the state," the poll official told IANS on Monday night.
The Election Commission Thursday told the Supreme Court that it would defer the upcoming by-polls to 15 Assembly constituencies in Karnataka.
Out of the three Loka Sabha seats that went to bypolls, the Congress-JD(S) alliance won Bellary and Mandya seats while the BJP retained Shimoga.
Karnataka's ruling Congress-JD(S) coalition won two Assembly seats and two Lok Sabha seats in bypolls. The BJP Lok Sabha seat Shivamogga, vacated by ex-CM Yeddyurappa.
Vote counting in all the five by-elections is on November 6.
The polling is being considered as litmus test for the ruling Congress-Janata Dal (Secular) alliance in Karnatak. The outcome of Karnataka bypolls is likely to impact state politics to a great extent.
Congress candidate Sowmya Reddy, the daughter of former Karnataka home minister Ramalinga Reddy, has usurped BJP from its bastion in Jayanagar bypoll.
Senior BJP leader and Opposition Leader in the Karnataka Assembly K S Eshwarappa on Thursday asked the voters of Gundlupet to receive money from Congress but vote for BJP in the upcoming bypoll on April 9.
Gandhinagar/Bangalore, March 21: It was a day of triple shock for the BJP, which lost its Karnataka chief minister Sadananda Gowda's Lok Sabha seat in the bypoll, lost the Mansa Assembly seat in Gujarat after
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