The Congress looks set to win the assembly poll in Karnataka’s Jayanagar where elections were deferred last month following the death of a candidate days before the state election on May 12.
The BJP has fielded Mr Vijayakumar’s brother BN Prahlad and the Congress candidate is senior leader and former minister Ramalinga Reddy’s daughter Sowmya Reddy. The Janata Dal-Secular of Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy pulled out its candidate and formally backed its coalition partner Congress.
At the end of 12 round of counting, the Congress was leading with 48,584 votes to the BJP’s 39, 970 votes. Party workers started celebrating and bursting crackers as early results indicated a Congress win. And Congress candidate Sowmya Reddy said that support had come in for her even from rival parties.
This is the first election that the Janata Dal-Secular and Congress have fought on the same side since they formed an alliance to take power following a fractured verdict.
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