Bengaluru, June 19 -- In a startling admission amid the cross-voting controversy that rocked the Karnataka Legislative Council elections, Karnataka Public Works Minister Satish Jarkiholi on Friday claimed that Chief Minister DK Shivakumar had successfully employed the BJP's own political strategy to engineer Congress party's sweeping victory in the polls.
As allegations of cross-voting and behind-the-scenes political manoeuvring dominated the state's political discourse, Jarkiholi asserted that Congress had turned the tables on its rivals by adopting what he described as the BJP's "Delhi model" of electoral management.
"What has been happening in Delhi has now happened in Karnataka. Our Chief Minister DK Shivakumar has adopted the BJP mod...