{"id":660439,"date":"2024-02-27T23:45:43","date_gmt":"2024-02-28T03:45:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/?p=660439"},"modified":"2024-02-27T23:45:43","modified_gmt":"2024-02-28T03:45:43","slug":"how-bjp-which-deceived-the-opposition-in-up-himachal-got-defeated-in-karnataka-which-bjp-mlas-supported-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/660439\/","title":{"rendered":"How BJP, which deceived the opposition in UP-Himachal, got defeated in Karnataka, which BJP MLAs supported Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"

BJP, which surprised through cross voting in Himachal and Uttar Pradesh, got screwed in Karnataka. Two Karnataka BJP MLAs took a different stand. One BJP MLA cross-voted, while the other MLA remained absent from voting.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"BJP, which had deceived the opposition (Samajwadi Party and Congress) in Uttar Pradesh and Himachal Pradesh, was defeated in Karnataka.\u00a0The BJP which got the support of opposition MLAs in UP and Himachal, the same BJP MLAs voted in support of Congress in Karnataka.\u00a0According to the Indian Express report, with the help of two Karnataka BJP MLAs, Congress overturned the vote in the state.\u00a0The two BJP MLAs who helped the Congress were earlier members of the Congress.\u00a0Both had joined BJP in 2019.\u00a0It is being said that both the rebel MLAs of BJP are angry with the party.<\/span><\/p>\n

In the Karnataka Rajya Sabha elections, BJP’s Yesvantpur MLA ST Somashekhar cross-voted, while Yellapur MLA Shivram Hebbar remained absent from voting.\u00a066 year old Somashekhar is a three-time MLA.\u00a0He became the Chairman of Bengaluru Development Authority in Kumaraswamy’s government.\u00a0After joining BJP in 2019, he also worked in BS Yediyurappa government.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

According to the report, ST Somashekar was once considered close to Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, but for the last few days, he is being seen close to Karnataka Deputy CM DK Shivakumar.\u00a0A few days ago, he was seen in a chartered flight with the Deputy CM, after which speculations about his return to Congress intensified.\u00a0It is being said that Congress can make him its candidate from Bengaluru North in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections.<\/span><\/p>\n

Shivram Hebbar is also a three-time MLA<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

BJP MLA Shivram Hebbar, who was absent from voting, has also been a three-time MLA.\u00a0Hebbar has served as Labor Minister in the previous Yediyurappa and Bommai governments.\u00a0According to the report, Hebbar is also angry with BJP, although the reason for his displeasure has not been revealed yet.\u00a0There is speculation that he may also return to Congress and be the party’s candidate from Uttara Kannada Lok Sabha seat.\u00a0Hebbar entered politics in 1983 with the Yellapur APMC elections.\u00a0In the 2008 assembly elections, he contested the Yellapur-Mundgod seat as a Congress candidate, but lost to BJP’s VS Patil.<\/span><\/p>\n

All three Congress candidates won in Karnataka<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

All three Congress candidates won in the Karnataka Rajya Sabha elections, while the BJP had to be content with one seat.\u00a0Five candidates were in the fray for 4 Rajya Sabha seats of Karnataka.\u00a0All three Congress candidates Ajay Maken, Syed Nasir Hussain, GC Chandrashekhar won, while BJP candidate Narayansa Bhadage also won.\u00a0Similarly, as the fifth candidate, Kupendra Reddy of JDS had to face defeat.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Opposition suffered setback in Uttar Pradesh and Himachal Pradesh<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

BJP, which had failed in Karnataka, surprised in Uttar Pradesh and Himachal Pradesh.\u00a0Elections were held for 10 Rajya Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh.\u00a0Out of these, through cross voting, BJP won 8 seats while Samajwadi Party won 2 seats.\u00a07 Samajwadi Party MLAs did cross voting.\u00a0At the same time, in Himachal too, 6 Congress MLAs also cross-voted.\u00a0BJP’s Harsh Mahajan won in Himachal.\u00a0He defeated Abhishek Manu Singhvi of Congress.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

BJP, which surprised through cross voting in Himachal and Uttar Pradesh, got screwed in Karnataka. Two Karnataka BJP MLAs took a different stand. One BJP MLA cross-voted, while the other MLA remained absent from voting. BJP, which had deceived the opposition (Samajwadi Party and Congress) in Uttar Pradesh and Himachal Pradesh, was defeated in Karnataka.\u00a0The BJP which got the support of opposition MLAs in UP and Himachal, the same BJP MLAs voted in support of Congress in Karnataka.\u00a0According to the Indian Express report, with the help of two Karnataka BJP…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":660440,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47743],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-660439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=660439"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":660441,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660439\/revisions\/660441"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/660440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}