Bengaluru, June 18 -- The voting for 7 vacant Legislative Council seats from the Karnataka Assembly began at the Vidhana Soudha here this morning.
While the ruling Congress has fielded 5 candidates, the Opposition BJP has fielded 2 candidates and its coalition partner, the JD(S), in one. The vacancies have been caused by the retirement of 7 members whose tenure would end on June 30.
The voting, which began at 9 am, will continue till 4 pm, following which the counting of votes will be taken up at 5 pm and the results announced later this evening.
The Congress has fielded B.K. Hariprasad (KPCC President), Thippannappa Kamaknoor, P.V. Mohan, B.S. Shivanna (Malavalli Shivanna) and Vinay Karthik. Lingaraj Patil and Raghu R. Kautilya are the ...