Former Chief Minister and Leader of Opposition in the Legislative Assembly Siddaramaiah on Monday expressed confidence that both the candidates of the Congress will romp home in the ensuing polls to Rajya Sabha with the party having 25 additional votes besides hoping of getting the second preference votes in its favor.
“We are hopeful that the JD(S)’ votes will also come in our favor since our second candidate belongs to the minorities. I cannot say how many votes will come in our candidates’ favor but we are strongly hoping to get ‘conscience votes’ from other parties,” he claimed.
Speaking to reporters here, Mr. Siddaramaiah, who was here to campaign for the party candidate contesting to the Council polls from South Graduates’ constituency, asked former CM H.D. Kumaraswamy to get his party candidate withdraw from the RS poll fray and support the Congress candidate if he wanted to defeat the BJP.
