Bengaluru, May 3 -- Karnataka Congress suffered a twin political setback on Saturday, just ahead of the counting of by-elections to two Assembly seats, after losing a sitting MLA seat in a dramatic recount at Sringeri and the disqualification of Dharwad MLA Vinay Kulkarni following his conviction in a murder case.
In a major reversal in the Sringeri Assembly constituency, sitting Congress MLA T D Raje Gowda lost the seat by a narrow margin of 52 votes to BJP candidate D N Jeevaraj after the recounting of postal ballots ordered by the Karnataka High Court.
The High Court, hearing an election petition filed by Jeevaraj challenging the counting of postal ballots in the 2023 Assembly elections, had directed the Election Commission to conduct ...