India, Oct. 28 -- The National Democratic Alliance (NDA) won two Karnataka Legislative Council seats Tuesday, October 27, in elections held with paper ballots, and the BJP was leading in two other constituencies.

A.P. Ranganath of the Janata Dal (Secular), or JD(S), won the Bengaluru Teachers' seat on an NDA ticket, defeating Congress's Puttanna by 908 votes. Ranganath polled 10,810 votes to Puttanna's 9,902. It was Ranganath's third attempt at the seat.

In the Karnataka North-East Teachers' constituency, incumbent BJP MLC Shashil Namoshi beat Congress candidate Sharanappa Mattur by 3,297 votes, polling 15,596 to 12,299. The result was a setback for the Congress on the home turf of party president Mallikarjun Kharge.

Ranganath, an advo...