The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which had announced candidates to five of the six Legislative Council seats leaving one to its alliance partner the Janata Dal (Secular), will likely give up another seat to its partner making the seat-sharing formula to 4-2. Six Council seats go to polls on June 3.
Indicating confusion between the parties, E.C. Ningaraju, who was given ticket for South Teachers’ constituency by the BJP, filed his nominations on Wednesday. Hours before this, the JD(S) supremo H.D. Deve Gowda issued the ‘B’ form to its candidate Vivekananda to contest from the constituency.
Even as Mr. Ningaraju ruled out the possibility of the party asking him to withdraw from the race, sources in the party said he would likely be made to withdraw in favour of the JD(S).
