Voting is underway within the biennial election to the Karnataka Legislative Council from two graduates’ and an equal variety of lecturers’ constituencies on Monday, which is witnessing an intense contest. The polling which started at 8 AM will go on until 5 PM, ballot officers mentioned. A complete of 49 candidates are within the fray for the polls, together with 4 ladies.
The ruling BJP and the principal opposition Congress have fielded one candidate every in all of the 4 constituencies: North-West Graduates’, South Graduates’, North-West Teachers’, and West Teachers’. While the JD(S) has candidates within the fray in three constituencies aside from the North-West Graduates’ constituency, the remaining candidates are all both independents or from unrecognised events.
A complete of two,84,922 voters are anticipated to forged their votes in about 607 polling stations within the elections to 4 MLC seats. Counting of votes will happen on June 15. The elections to the 4 seats of the Upper House of Karnataka Legislature have been necessitated because the time period of BJP’s Nirani Hanamant Rudrappa (N-W Graduates’) and JD(S)’ Okay T Srikante Gowda (S-Graduates’), BJP’s Arun Shahpur (N-W Teachers’) and JD(S)’ Basavaraj Horatti (W-Teachers’) are coming to an finish on July 4.
Horatti, who was Chairman of Legislative Council till lately, had resigned from the put up to hitch the BJP, and is now the ruling occasion’s candidate for West Teachers’ constituency, in search of a file eighth successive time period. He is pitted towards Basavaraj Gurikar and Shrishail Gadadinni from the Congress and JD(S) respectively.
For N-W Teachers’ constituency, the battle is between Arun Shahpur of BJP, who’s in search of re-election towards former Congress MLA and MP Prakash Hukkeri and Chandrashekhar Esappa Loni of JD(S); whereas for the South Graduates’ constituency, former MLC M V Ravishankar of the BJP is taking up Madhu G Madegowda of Congress and H Okay Ramu of JD(S).
Of the 4 constituencies, solely N-W Graduates seat is more likely to see a direct struggle between Nirani Hanamant Rudrappa of BJP, who’s in search of re-election and Congress’ Sunil Annappa Sank, as JD(S) has not fielded any candidate from the seat.There are a number of candidates from unrecognised events and independents within the fray in all of the 4 constituencies.
The final result of this ballot is essential for the ruling BJP, to take care of its majority within the 75-member higher home, that it lately gained, following the unopposed election of 4 of its candidates through the biennial polls for seven MLC seats within the state elected by MLAs, final month.
Source: www.financialexpress.com”